Peertube video should be available shortly: https://toobnix.org/w/4KZXQBU8iDCprQRH1b1zvF
On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM Pat McEvoy <[email protected]> wrote: > In fact we plan to stream to both our website, Peertube via Toobnix.org, > and YouTube. (BSDTV) > > NYC*BUG <https://www.nycbug.org/cgi?action=streaming> > nycbug.org <https://www.nycbug.org/cgi?action=streaming> > <https://www.nycbug.org/cgi?action=streaming> > <https://www.nycbug.org/cgi?action=streaming> > > Patrick McEvoy > > > On Nov 5, 2025, at 12:40, Tara Stella <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi! > Can you share the slides or the recording when you can? > It's a bit too late for an old lady like me to watch it online at midnight > 🤦♀️ > I really really want to know about this. > Cheers, > Tara > > > On 5 November 2025 16:29:10 UTC, George Rosamond < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> RSVP ASAP to rsvp AT lists.nycbug.org to gain access to the meeting >> location. >> >> **** >> >> The Once and Future COBOL, James Lowden >> 2025-11-05 @ 18:45 local (23:45 UTC) - NYU Tandon Engineering Building >> (new), 370 Jay St, 7th Floor kitchen area, Brooklyn >> >> GCC 15, released in April 2025, for the first time includes COBOL among >> the languages it compiles. Alongside the venerable gcc and g++, there is >> now gcobol. >> >> The reader may well wonder why a small company would devote years of >> development to produce a product they don't own and can't sell. Why did >> GCC decide to include COBOL? In short, what use is COBOL? >> >> To those questions and more, we have answers. >> >> As Mark Twain said of himself, news of COBOL's demise is much >> exaggerated. Industry studies show billions of lines of COBOL still in >> production. With a probability of 95%, your last ATM transaction went >> through a COBOL application. Not for nothing did nearly every large firm >> pull out the stops 25 years ago for Y2K to adapt their critical software >> to the 21st century. They didn't do that to throw it all away. >> >> COBOL was and remains useful because it was specifically designed for >> its problem domain. No language is better suited for nuts-and-bolts >> unglamorous data processing. For example, COBOL defines an I/O model, >> numerical precision, 8 forms of rounding, and over 100 runtime exceptions. >> >> Programming languages often have shallow, undeserved reputations. Lisp >> has too many parentheses, COBOL too many words, Perl is write-only. >> Let's talk about why COBOL remains viable and vital, and why it's now >> part of GCC. >> >> James lives in Maine, where he tries to work 11 months a year, reserving >> August for sailing with his wife and their dog. He worked for many years >> on Wall Street on quantitative research systems. For a decade he was the >> maintainer for FreeTDS (www.freetds.org), a client library for SQL >> Server. Due in part to his efforts, this year GCC 15 added COBOL to the >> suite of languages it compiles. >> ------------------------------ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.nycbug.org:8443/mailman/listinfo/talk >> >> _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nycbug.org:8443/mailman/listinfo/talk > >
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