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Walter Bright is a Computer Programmer known for being the designer of the D Programming Language . He was also the main developer of the first native C++ compiler, Zortech C++ (later to become Symantec C++, now Digital Mars C++). Before the C++ compiler he developed the Datalight C compiler, also sold as Zorland C and later Zortech C.

He is also known for Empire , one of the first strategy Computer Games , written in 1971-1977 on a PDP-10 .

Bright graduated from Caltech in 1979 with a BS in mechanical engineering.


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