Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

[Sean Kelly]

== 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.