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

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On 9/8/26 10:11 PM, Jeremy Davis via TriLUG wrote:
> 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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