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Kernighan, B.W., Mashey, J.R., "The UNIX programming environment", Software--Practice & Experience, 9, 1, pp. 1-16, January 1979. Google

Quotations
2 ;;Quote: 1000 UNIX systems even though it was developed by two people in an attic in a year
3 ;;Quote: by making directories normal files, directory programs are outside of the system
3 ;;Quote: in Unix a file is a sequence of bytes no matter what device it resides on
9 ;;Quote: Unix programs are easily connected with other programs because they have few features and do one thing well
9 ;;Quote: in Unix, produced a rhyming dictionary by composing existing functions with a reverse function
QuoteRef: kernBW1_1979 ;;11 Much of the use of the [UNIX] shell is simply to avoid programming.


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Topic: software tools (20 items)
Topic: programmer productivity (57 items)
Topic: uniform representation of files and sequences (14 items)
Topic: identifying program modules (26 items)

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