Doug McIlroy[1] invented pipes, by the way. He's also the author of spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak and tr. He has written some fascinating papers, like S

Doug McIlroy[1] invented pipes, by the way. He's also the author of spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak and tr. He has written some fascinating papers, like Squinting at Power Series[2]. Thanks Christian Neukirchen for posting this on his blog[3], Mark Dominus[4] for asking for a copy and Doug McIlroy for sharing in the first place. [1] http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/ http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/ [2] http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/squint.pdf http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/squint.pdf [3] http://chneukirchen.org/trivium http://chneukirchen.org/trivium [4] http://blog.plover.com http://blog.plover.com