Dave Plummer

Trivial.

And it's one of those things that sticks, I think.

You do it so many times.

You know, if I give you a C issue, there are certain syntactic issues in C that you're never going to forget and get wrong.

Yeah.

And it's just one of those.

The biggest issue is you have to write completely sequentially because at least in that variant, 6502, you can't add things later.

You can only add things on the end.

So it's like programming a tape in a way.

What was the most complicated thing you've built with machine language?

Uh, that game would be, I mean, in assembly language, I've done a fair bit of complicated stuff, but in actual machine language, I think that game would be the only thing I've actually.

You literally built a game.

Not a great game, but it worked.

I think there was two stages for me.

I always knew immediately that I was fascinated with these machines from the TRS-80 model one.

It's all I wanted to do is ride my bike back there and have more time with it.

And I did that, you know, to wear out my welcome as much as I could.

And the other revelation came, I think, about second or third year university when I realized I love programming, but I have no idea what I'm going to do.

Am I going to make the 12 flash on a VCR somewhere or am I going to go work on an operating system?

I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to do post-graduation, but I love what I do.