The video for NYC*BUG Nov 2025: The Once and Future COBOL, by James Lowden have been posted: Peertube: https://toobnix.org/w/gHacaw1TMx7HqrUiZbHYjQ Youtube: https://youtube.com/live/ldLIyticlNU
On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM Pat McEvoy <[email protected]> wrote: > Seems I spoke too soon. Toobnix is having trouble this morning. Will take > a look and have finished videos posted to NYC*BUG website Meeting page. > Patrick McEvoy > > > On Nov 6, 2025, at 00:14, Pat McEvoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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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