Glad I checked the comments after a few dozen slides.

I think this presentation is supposed to convince you that it’s important to have a deep understanding of both the implementation details and official specification of your language of choice. However my take away is that C is really complicated and has no respect for the least astonishment principle.

I think C predates that principle.

This was prepared to be a 3 hour presentation. Source: https://github.com/bmerkle/twodaycourses/blob/master/doc/Dee...

A huge number of the slides are small incremental changes to a base slide. Things like adding each bullet point, callouts, individual newlines and edits to make code changes easier to follow, etc..

There's like 5-20 pages in the pdf for every actual slide. So it's not that bad.