Re: Writing Interpreters, Compilers and Translators in Perl

[samizdat]

Blessed and revered Moron,

I applaud your dedication and gastronomical fortitude. :)

I think you need to make your talk much more focused. Marshall Kirk McKusick may be able to cover the history of BSD in two hours while swilling a pitcher of beer, but the rest of us mortals need to distill our talks down to one or two major points, made really well.

I'd suggest that you build (at most) two examples during your hour, sprinkling a few tidbits of history and theory on top. If you make the examples good, they can make your two hundred line "Links" addendum make sense.

[Moron]

I see what you're getting at. Yes, I do have some ideas for keeping it focused. And yes I can always cut detail to "a bit of history and a bit of theory" to achieve that and yes I can refer to such things by linkage or reference - but I believe it is precisely by keeping an eye on the bigger picture of the basic design of such software in preparing the talk that I feel I can best make the pieces in the puzzle make sense for the selected audience level.