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P. J. Plauger
KindPerson
Born1944
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourcedinkumware.com ↗

Wrote the first commercial C compiler, chaired the ANSI C committee, and authored the standard C library everyone ported.

Wrote the first commercial C compiler (Whitesmiths), wrote 'The Elements of Programming Style' with Kernighan, and chaired the ANSI C committee.\n\nThe standards lawyer of the C world; his company Dinkumware supplies the C/C++ standard libraries most implementations use.

Sources

  1. dinkumware.com/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._Plauger