Douglas Mcllroy
Updated: 09/15/2017 by Computer Hope
Name: Douglas Mcllroy
Born: 1932
Computer related contributions
- Programmer, mathematician, and engineer.
- Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College.
- Developed Unix pipelines, software componentry and several Unix tools, such as spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr.
- Pioneer of component-based software and software product line engineering.
Honors and awards
- Won both the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award ("The Flame") and its Software Tools award
- Served as national lecturer for Association for Computing Machinery
- Turing Award chairman
- Associate editor for the Communications of the ACM
- Member of executive committee of CSNET
Quotes
"The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code."
"As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow."