The Unix way and the pipe was definitely McIlroy's genius. But let's not forget that he also indirectly spawned ActiveX ;) Here's he is in 1968 presenting his

The Unix way and the pipe was definitely McIlroy's genius. But let's not forget that he also indirectly spawned ActiveX ;) Here's he is in 1968 presenting his ideas on component based software at NATO http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/9/95/Software_components_lecture_large.jpg http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/9/95/Software_compon... My favourite McIlroy quote : "The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code"