[TriLUG] ATTN! TriLUG Sep 10 - Jon "maddog" Hall -Compilers and Interpreters for Dummies

[Jeremy Davis via TriLUG]

Attention all Triangle Linux User Group Members and supporters of
opensource.

Jon "maddog" Hall is "literally" the godfather of Linus Torvalds' children.

Let me re-emphasize that Linus Torvalds the creator of Linux and his wife
Tove Torvalds approached Jon "maddog" Hall to be the godfather of their
children and of course he accepted.

Jon "maddog" Hall is a huge celebrity and evangelist in the opensource
world and he is presenting this Thursday Sep 10th at TriLUG.

We all (YOU) should take part in making this the most well attended TriLUG
meeting in history.

Stop whatever else you are doing and help crowdsource a successful PR
campaign right now.

Every TriLUG member needs to share on every local list they can think of.

This is urgent. Share this everywhere now.

I have seen him speak as a keynote speaker and I recall him being one of
the best opensource speakers I have ever seen. Don't let anyone miss it.

Sincerely,
Jeremy Davis



On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 6:18 PM Maryam Abkar via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> as a reminder Our September 10th meeting is this week! below are the
> details.
> be there or be square!
>
> -Maryam A.
> ---------------------------------------
>
> *Title*: Compilers and Interpreters for Dummies: What they are, how they
> work (from a 30,000 foot level) and why you should care.
>
> *Abstract:* Maybe you took compiler design as an undergrad, took it again
> in grad school, and barely passed both times. There are plenty of reasons
> people dread the subject — a friend at Bell Labs made the sign of the cross
> and ran when asked to teach it. maddog didn't get that choice. In 1977 at
> Hartford State Technical College he had to teach compilers to second-year
> students who, two years earlier, had never touched a computer. In that time
> they went from knowing nothing to writing a simple database, a simple OS,
> and a simple compiler — the last being "the student killer." So he had to
> learn it cold: as a teacher, the part you don't know is exactly what some
> kid will ask about.
>
> This is a 1.5 hour "Introduction to Compiler Design" that aims to show how
> this software pulls off:
>
> cat <Crappy Source Code> | A MIRACLE HAPPENS | cat - <working object code>
>
> It tries to replace a thirty hour university course in 90 minutes, so YMMV.
>
> *Bio:* Jon "maddog" Hall is Board Chair Emeritus of the Linux Professional
> Institute, Co-founder and Senior Advisor to Caninos Loucos, Executive
> Director of Linux International, and President of Project Cauã. He is
> currently Open Source Technical Advisor for Qsentinel.
>
> He has worked as a programmer, systems designer, sysadmin, product manager,
> educator, author, CEO, and consultant since 1969 — from IBM 360/370
> assembler in 1973, to Department Head of Data Processing at Hartford State
> Technical College (1977–1980), to learning Unix at Bell Labs (1980–1983).
> At DEC he met Richard Stallman in 1986 and embraced Free Software, met
> Linus Torvalds in 1994, and helped facilitate the port of Linux to the
> 64-bit DEC Alpha.
>
> He holds a BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel (1973) and an MSCS
> from RPI (1977), and has spoken on Free and Open Source Software in over
> 100 countries. He enjoys talking with students over pizza and beer — the
> pizza is optional.
> --
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