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Encyclopedia > Douglas McIlroy
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Portrait of Douglas McIlroy taken at the NATO conference in Garmisch 1968, courtesy of Brian Randell.

Douglas McIlroy is a professor of computer science, mathematician, engineer and famous programmer. He is known for having invented:

He earned a Bachelor's degree in engineering physics from Cornell University in 1954, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from MIT in 1959.


External links

  • Doug McIlroy's homepage (http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/)
  • Biography (http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/biography)

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Diff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1281 words)
McIlroy's work was preceded and influenced by Steve Johnson's comparison program on GECOS and Mike Lesk's proof program.
The potential usefulness of a diff tool provoked McIlroy into researching and designing a more robust tool that could be used in a variety of tasks but perform well in the processing and space limitations of the PDP-11's hardware.
McIlroy considered writing a post-processor for diff where a variety of output formats could be designed and implemented, but he found it more frugal and simpler to have diff be responsible for generating the syntax and reverse-order input accepted by the ed command.
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