Whitesmiths Ltd. was a software company founded in New York City by P. J. Plauger, Mark Krieger and Gabriel Pham,[1] and last located in Westford, Massachusetts.
Today, it is mainly remembered for lending its name to a particular indentation style, originally used in the code examples which accompanied it.
Whitesmith's first customer for their C compiler was Fischer & Porter, a process control company then located in Warminster, Pennsylvania.
[2] That year Whitesmiths formed a technical and business alliance with France-based COSMIC Software.
Whitesmiths merged with Intermetrics in December 1988, leading to further mergers and acquisitions.