Connecting Programs Like Garden Hose (Bell Labs Memo)

paper Doug McIlroy (1964) · source

Doug McIlroy’s 1964 internal Bell Labs memo proposing that programs be connected “like garden hose — screw in another segment when it becomes necessary to massage data in another way.” The conceptual origin of Unix pipes, implemented by Ken Thompson in January 1973.

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