Walter Bright
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| Walter Bright | |
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 Bright at ACCU 2009 |
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| Born | c. 1957 (age 54–55) |
| Education | Caltech (BS, 1979) |
| Known for | D Programming Language |
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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 C++ compiler that translated directly to object without going via C, 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.[1][2] 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 B.S. in mechanical engineering.
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- ^ "The Dobbs Code Talk Gurus". Dr Dobb's Journal. http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=103&Itemid=85. Retrieved 2009-04-29.
- ^ Johnston, Stuart (Jun 10, 1991). "Zortech Simplifies 32-Bit DOS with C++ Compilers". InfoWorld (Menlo Park, CA: InfoWorld Publishing) 13 (23): p. 22. ISSN 0199-6649. http://books.google.com/books?id=RlAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22. "said Walter Bright, Zortech's directory of technology
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