From bduggan at matatu.org Tue Nov 7 05:48:47 2017 From: bduggan at matatu.org (Brian Duggan) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 08:48:47 -0500 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Monday, Nov 13 Message-ID: <20171107134847.GA23234@haraka.localdomain> Hi Folks, Any volunteers to talk about something on Monday? Or any ideas for activities? Brian From waltman at pobox.com Tue Nov 7 12:12:05 2017 From: waltman at pobox.com (Walt Mankowski) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 15:12:05 -0500 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Monday, Nov 13 In-Reply-To: <20171107134847.GA23234@haraka.localdomain> References: <20171107134847.GA23234@haraka.localdomain> Message-ID: <20171107201205.fevwti7th65wyqor@mawode.com> Has everyone seen my "A Punchcard Ate My Program!" talk by now? I thought I might've already given it at phl.pm, but I don't see it on the website so maybe not? On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 08:48:47AM -0500, Brian Duggan wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Any volunteers to talk about something on Monday? > Or any ideas for activities? > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > Philadelphia-pm mailing list > Philadelphia-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 455 bytes Desc: not available URL: From bduggan at matatu.org Tue Nov 7 14:22:34 2017 From: bduggan at matatu.org (Brian Duggan) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 17:22:34 -0500 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Monday, Nov 13 In-Reply-To: <20171107201205.fevwti7th65wyqor@mawode.com> References: <20171107134847.GA23234@haraka.localdomain> <20171107201205.fevwti7th65wyqor@mawode.com> Message-ID: <20171107222234.GA25101@haraka.local> I have not seen it. Well volunteered! Brian On Tuesday, November 7, Walt Mankowski wrote: > Has everyone seen my "A Punchcard Ate My Program!" talk by now? I > thought I might've already given it at phl.pm, but I don't see it on > the website so maybe not? > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 08:48:47AM -0500, Brian Duggan wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > Any volunteers to talk about something on Monday? > > Or any ideas for activities? > > > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > > Philadelphia-pm mailing list > > Philadelphia-pm at pm.org > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm > _______________________________________________ > Philadelphia-pm mailing list > Philadelphia-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm From waltman at pobox.com Sun Nov 12 16:37:17 2017 From: waltman at pobox.com (Walt Mankowski) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 19:37:17 -0500 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Monday, Nov 13 In-Reply-To: <20171107222234.GA25101@haraka.local> References: <20171107134847.GA23234@haraka.localdomain> <20171107201205.fevwti7th65wyqor@mawode.com> <20171107222234.GA25101@haraka.local> Message-ID: <20171113003717.3nizqd6vv7amupda@mawode.com> There might be a few minor tweaks, but this is the same talk I gave in August at FOSSCON. This was my abstract: COBOL is the Rodney Dangerfield of programming languages ? it doesn?t get any respect. COBOL is routinely denigrated for its verbosity and dismissed as archaic, and for good reason: COBOL bears little to no resemblance to modern programming languages. Yet COBOL is far from a dead language. It processes an estimated 85% of all business transactions, and 5 billion lines of new COBOL code are written every year! Last year at FOSSCON I argued that COBOL isn?t such a bad language. This year we?ll journey deep into the past to recreate a retro bug that could only happen in COBOL! Our travels will include: * syntactic white space! * scotch tape! * dueling compiler options! * virtual punch cards! * sentences! * code blocks! * periods! No punch cards were harmed in the creation of this talk. This is a longer version of a talk I first gave at !!Con, which is why the description contains so many exclamation points. :) Walt On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 05:22:34PM -0500, Brian Duggan wrote: > I have not seen it. Well volunteered! > > Brian > > On Tuesday, November 7, Walt Mankowski wrote: > > Has everyone seen my "A Punchcard Ate My Program!" talk by now? I > > thought I might've already given it at phl.pm, but I don't see it on > > the website so maybe not? > > > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 08:48:47AM -0500, Brian Duggan wrote: > > > Hi Folks, > > > > > > Any volunteers to talk about something on Monday? > > > Or any ideas for activities? > > > > > > Brian > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Philadelphia-pm mailing list > > > Philadelphia-pm at pm.org > > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Philadelphia-pm mailing list > > Philadelphia-pm at pm.org > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm > _______________________________________________ > Philadelphia-pm mailing list > Philadelphia-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 455 bytes Desc: not available URL: