Malcolm McIlroy

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Malcolm Douglas McIlroy. (1932 - ). American software engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, engineer, and educator.

Ideas

  • Unix pipelines, software componentry, unix tools spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr.
  • Software componentization.
  • Co-authored an optimized Quicksort algorithm with Jon Bentley

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