P.J. Plauger | |
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| Born | Phillip James Plauger (1944-01-13)January 13, 1944 (age 81) Petersburg, West Virginia |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur and writer |
| Alma mater | |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Notable works | "Child of All Ages" |
| Notable awards | John W. Campbell Award (1975)[1] |
Phillip James (P.J. orBill)Plauger[2] (/ˈpiˌdʒeɪˈplɔːɡər/; born January 13, 1944, Petersburg, West Virginia) is anauthor,entrepreneur andcomputer programmer. He has written and co-written articles and books about programming style, software tools, and theC programming language, as well as works ofscience fiction.
Plauger worked atBell Labs from 1969 to 1975,[1] where he coauthoredElements of Programming Style andSoftware Tools withBrian Kernighan. In 1978, he foundedWhitesmiths, the first company to sell a Ccompiler andUnix-likeoperating system (Idris). He has since been involved in C andC++ standardization and is now the president ofDinkumware. In January 2009 he became theconvener of the ISOC++ standards committee, but in October 2009 he tendered his resignation after failing to pass a resolution to stop processing any new features in order to facilitate the promised shipping date for theC++0x standard.[3][4]
Plauger has been credited with inventingpair programming while leadingWhitesmiths Ltd.[5]
Plauger has written a number of science fiction stories, notably "Child of All Ages", first published in the March 1975 issue ofAnalog, which features a protagonist who has achieved immortality at the cost of never growing beyond childhood. The story was nominated for theHugo andNebula awards in 1976. Plauger won theJohn W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1975—notably beatingJohn Varley for the award—and subsequently sold a story toThe Last Dangerous Visions.
Plauger holds a bachelor's degree in physics fromPrinceton University and a PhD innuclear physics fromMichigan State University.[6]
| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Software |
| Headquarters | Concord, Massachusetts, US |
Key people | P.J. Plauger,Pete Becker |
| Products | Dinkum C++ library Dinkum C++ Library Reference Dinkum C Library Reference Dinkum CoreX Library |
| Website | www |
Dinkumware is an Americansoftware company specializing in core libraries forC/C++, owned and operated by P.J. Plauger. It is based inConcord, Massachusetts.
The company has provided theC++ Standard Library implementation that ships withMicrosoftVisual C++ since 1996 andEmbarcaderoC++Builder since 2005,[7] and suppliesC++ andEmbedded C++ libraries to the embedded community. It also provides libraries forJava and other tools, including "proofers" to test for library adherence to the standard.
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