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At the end of 2015, Doug McIlroy sent this e-mail in to the TUHS mailing list: Among the papers of the late Bob Morris I have found a Unix manual that I don't remember at all--a draft by Dennis Ritchie, in the style of (but not designated as) a technical report with numbered sections and subsections. It does not resemble the familiar layout of the numbered editions. Besides the usual overview of k

This site is an archive of interesting documents (papers, manuals, articles, etc.) Tired of having trouble finding some of my favorite papers and documents, I decided to organize the best publicly available documents in a library that also includes versions in multiple formats. Most material so far is related to computer science, but I plan to cover other fields eventually. If find any mistakes or

In a typewritten piece of paper, Doug McIlroy described pipes long before the advent of Unix. - 10 - Summary--what's most important. To put my strongest concerns into a nutshell: 1. We should have some ways of coupling programs like garden hose--screw in another segment when it becomes when it becomes necessary to massage data in another way. This is the way of IO also. 2. Our loader should be abl

Rob Pike February 21, 1989 Introduction Kernighan and Plauger's The Elements of Programming Style was an important and rightly influential book.  But sometimes I feel its concise rules were taken as a cookbook approach to good style instead of the succinct expression of a philosophy they were meant to be.  If the book claims that variable names should be chosen meaningfully, doesn't it then follow