[Philadelphia-pm] technical night?

Eric Lucas eric at lucii.org
Mon Jul 25 17:56:11 PDT 2016


Oh! I vote for the "Secrets of the Dead" talk.
Sounds great.

I excised COBOL from my resume years ago - but still have qualified respect
for the language.

Eric

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Walt Mankowski <waltman at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 01:26:23PM -0400, Brian Duggan wrote:
> > Great, sounds like a quorum!
> >
> > Let's make it official:
> >
> >   Tuesday, August 9th, 6pm
>
> That's the same night as PLUG North, but I suppose I could miss it
> next month.
>
> >   PromptWorks
> >   1211 Chestnut St, Suite 400
> >   (4th floor)
>
> Thanks for volunteering a place to meet!
>
> > Topic/presenter is still TBD.
>
> I've got 2 potential talks I could do.  One is on what's new in Perl 5
> since roughly 5.10.  It's basically a summary of a series of excellent
> talks that rjbs gave every year at yapc while he was pumpking. I gave
> it last year at Fosscon to an audience of about 5 people, and to a
> larger audience at PLUG Central in April.
>
> The other talk is called "Secrets of the Dead: What Modern Programmers
> Can Learn from COBOL".  I gave it as a 20 minute talk at this year's
> yapc, but it ended up being a bit too long.  I'll be giving it again
> as a 50 minute talk at this year's Fosscon on August 20, and it might
> be nice to have a chance to practice the new parts.
>
> Walt
>
>
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