or Bill) Plauger[2] (/ˈpiˌdʒeɪ ˈplɔːɡər/; born January 13, 1944, Petersburg, West Virginia) is an author, entrepreneur and computer programmer.
Plauger worked at Bell Labs from 1969 to 1975,[1] where he coauthored Elements of Programming Style and Software Tools with Brian Kernighan.
In 1978, he founded Whitesmiths, the first company to sell a C compiler and Unix-like operating system (Idris).
[3][4] Plauger has been credited with inventing pair programming while leading Whitesmiths Ltd.[5] Plauger has written a number of science fiction stories, notably "Child of All Ages", first published in the March 1975 issue of Analog, which features a protagonist who has achieved immortality at the cost of never growing beyond childhood.
[6] Dinkumware is an American software company specializing in core libraries for C/C++, owned and operated by P.J.