for the younger folks here on HN I wanted to point out that Mr. Bright was the creator of the Zortech C and C++ compilers of old, as well as the co-creator of one of the most famous early computer strategy games of all time, Empire and Empire Deluxe. He would know whereof he speaks.

I personally used the Zortech tools in my C/C++ days, played Empire a ton, even written a few hobby clones of Empire.