Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

[Georg Wrede]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> == Quote from Georg Wrede (georg.wrede at iki.fi)'s article
>> The "presentation software format" is more restrictive than we usually
>> think. Everything has to be crunched to ridiculous screenfuls, mostly
>> containing a couple of bullet items. And if you want the audience to
>> follow the presentation "where you are" you have to do all kinds of
>> one-at-a-time appearing bullets. It's really pathetic. (And I, at least,
>> end up spending inordinate time figuring should they fly in from the
>> left or rignt, or should they "emerge", or whatever.) Instead of simply
>> scrolling them into view when needed.
> ...
>> PP is for M$ style sales pitches, not for disseminating serious content.
>> IMNSHO, of course. (And the less there's bread and butter, the more you
>> can decorate, having everybody exit, aahing and oohing all the way home.)
>> And how do you present conveniently a code snippet that exceeds a
>> screenful?
> 
> When I went back to finish my degree I was forced to take a Public Speaking
> course, and the course basically had one simple message:
> 
> The likelihood that an audience will either get lost or bored is an exponential
> function of the complexity of the presentation.  As much as I despise the PP-
> based presentation format, it does force the speaker to simplify things as
> much as possible.

That's certainly true with non-techie audiences. I wish we had had 
speaking classes when I went to school. The first time I gave a lecture 
at the university, my hands trembled visibly on the OH.