Whitesmiths Ltd. was a software company founded in New York City by P. J. Plauger, Mark Krieger and Gabriel Pham, and last located in Westford, Massachusetts. It sold a Unix-like operating system called Idris, as well as the first commercial C compiler, Whitesmiths C. The Whitesmiths compiler, first written for the PDP-11, was released in 1978 and was an entirely new implementation that borrowed no code from Unix. Today the company is mainly remembered for lending its name to a particular indentation style, originally used in the code examples that accompanied the compiler.
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