# Why call it Miller?
Miller documentation
Keywords: John Kerl, Kerl, Miller, miller, mlr, OLAP, data analysis software, regression, correlation, variance, data tools,

<titleinbody>Miller</titleinbody>
• About Miller
• File formats
• Miller features in the context of the Unix toolkit
• Record-heterogeneity
• Reference
• Data examples
• Cookbook
• FAQ
• Internationalization
• Compiling, portability, dependencies, and testing
• Performance
• Why C?
• Why call it Miller?
• How original is Miller?
• Things to do
• Documents by release
• Contact information
• GitHub repo

<titleinbody> Why call it Miller? </titleinbody>

The Unix toolkit was created in the 1970s and is a mainstay to this day. Miller is written in plain C, and its look and feel adheres closely to the classic toolkit style: if this were music, Miller would be a tribute album. Likewise, since commands are subcommands of the `mlr` executable, the result is a band, if you will, of command-line tools. Put these together and the namesake is another classic product of the 1970s: the Steve Miller Band.