Plauger is one of my unsung heroes. I discovered a little book by him after wading thru recursive descent parsers chapter by Herb Schildt... I don't want to ge

Plauger is one of my unsung heroes. I discovered a little book by him after wading thru recursive descent parsers chapter by Herb Schildt... I don't want to get down on Schildt, I enjoyed that too, he showed some cool stuff.. but Plauger had me thinking that programming could be a craft, an art, a noble intellectual pursuit.