Bright wrote
Mattel Intellivision games while at Caltech, then worked as a mechanical engineer after graduation. After learning
C in the early 1980s he ported
Empire to the
IBM PC, stating that C "might as well have been called EIL, for 'Empire Implementation Language.'" Bright developed the
Datalight C compiler, also sold as Zorland C and later Zortech C. Bright was the main developer of the Zortech C++ compiler (later
Symantec C++, now
Digital Mars C++), which was the first
C++ compiler to translate source code directly to object code without using
C as an intermediate.
D programming language Bright is the creator of the D programming language. He has implemented compilers for several other languages, and is considered an expert in many areas related to compiler technology. Walter regularly writes scientific and magazine articles about compilers and programming and was a blogger for ''
Dr. Dobb's Journal''. Around 2014, Bright wrote Warp, a fast C/C++ preprocessor written in D, for
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