Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is an American mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2019 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science...

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Hill, New Jersey: Bell Laboratories. Retrieved 31 January 2020. "M. Douglas McIlroy". Dartmouth College. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020...

x Douglas McIlroy. "Remarks for Japan Prize award ceremony for Dennis Ritchie, May 19, 2011, Murray Hill, NJ" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-06-19. Bill McGonigle...

non-alphanumeric characters. The original version of tr was written by Douglas McIlroy and was introduced in Version 4 Unix. The version of tr bundled in...

part of the 5th Edition of Unix released in 1974, and was written by Douglas McIlroy, and James Hunt. This research was published in a 1976 paper co-written...

executed concurrently. The concept of pipelines was championed by Douglas McIlroy at Unix's ancestral home of Bell Labs, during the development of Unix...

interface. The idea of reusable software components was promoted by Douglas McIlroy in his presentation at the NATO Software Engineering Conference of...

could manipulate files no matter what sort of device they were on. Douglas McIlroy then ported TMG compiler-compiler to PDP-7 assembly, creating the first...

(speakm) was around 1900 bytes. The speak utility was developed by Douglas McIlroy in the early 1970s at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It...

into an older framework of Douglas McIlroy. The description of the algorithm appeared as a technical report by Hunt and McIlroy in 1976. The following year...

shell. echo began within Multics. After it was programmed in C by Doug McIlroy as a "finger exercise" and proved to be useful, it became part of Version...

the project. The last to leave were Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna, who decided to reimplement their experiences in a...

the game Darwin, played by Victor A. Vyssotsky, Robert Morris, and Douglas McIlroy at Bell Labs in 1961. The word "Core" in the name comes from magnetic-core...

invented in August 1961 by Victor A. Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and M. Douglas McIlroy. (Dennis Ritchie is sometimes incorrectly cited as a co-author, but...

descendant of the RUNOFF program by Jerry Saltzer, which ran on CTSS. Douglas McIlroy and Robert Morris wrote runoff for Multics in BCPL based on Saltzer's...

implementation language in 1964. EPL was developed at Bell Labs and MIT by Douglas McIlroy, Robert Morris, and others. Initially, it was developed using the TMG...

The research accompanying the final version of Unix diff, written by Douglas McIlroy, was published in the 1976 paper "An Algorithm for Differential File...

1971. A later addition was the concept of pipes. At the suggestion of Douglas McIlroy, the redirection syntax was expanded so that the output of one command...

described in IETF's RFC 3284. The algorithm is based on Jon Bentley and Douglas McIlroy's paper "Data Compression Using Long Common Strings" written in 1999...

Peter Honeyman 2006 Radia Perlman 2005 Michael Stonebraker 2004 M. Douglas McIlroy 2003 Rick Adams 2002 James Gosling 2001 The GNU Project and all its...

macro-language tradition at Bell Labs, which was started by Douglas Eastwood and Douglas McIlroy in 1959. Preprocessing is defined by the first four (of eight)...

Ritchie, inventor of C. Unix Operating System, Plan 9 Operating System. Douglas McIlroy, influenced and designed such languages as SNOBOL, TRAC, PL/I, ALTRAN...

AT&T's Bell Labs, in the United States by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna. First released in 1971, Unix was written entirely...

in which it is an abbreviation for "Data Definition". According to Douglas McIlroy, dd was "originally intended for converting files between the ASCII...

self-hosting - programs could be written and tested on the PDP-7 itself. Douglas McIlroy wrote TMG (a compiler-compiler) in TMG on a piece of paper and "decided...

M6, was in use at AT&T Bell Laboratories, which was developed by Douglas McIlroy, Robert Morris and Andrew Hall. Kernighan and Ritchie developed m4...

Unix-like operating systems. "Electronic mail was there from the start", Douglas McIlroy writes in his article "A Research UNIX Reader: Annotated Excerpts from...

Recommendation as of May 2010, widespread adoption can be expected. 1972 Douglas McIlroy of Bell Laboratories adds the pipe operator to the UNIX command shell...

string manipulation macros by Douglas McIlroy, which were used extensively in the initial SNOBOL implementation. In 1969, McIlroy influenced the language again...