Dave Plummer

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories · 29 Aug 2025 podcast

So there's a lot of solutions like that that we run as exhibition projects.

But among the main languages, they all follow the same rules.

And so it really should just be how the algorithm is expressed in that language.

And many of them use the same backend compiler.

So it really is how you're expressing it and the limitations or the benefits of that language.

Are there a lot to be multiple submissions per language?

Yeah, yeah.

So if you look in the C, there's like five, I think.

Yeah, some are GCC, some are CLang, LLVM.

Yeah, we've got crazy languages like PowerShell.

There's a version in PowerShell and stuff like that.

Yeah, there's two guys over in Europe.

Rucker and Tudor basically own this now.

I started as just three languages.

I did Python, C Sharp, and C++.

And I checked them in, and I published the episode, and then people started throwing more solutions in there, and it just got out of hand.

So I had to get somebody to manage that one, and they've been great doing that for me.

I think the most fun for me is when I build something complex and I thought through how it should work and then I run it and it does work that way, that creates intense satisfaction.

So seeing the results come out the way that I planned them and have it work, because it rarely does the first time.

Yeah.

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