April C/C++ Meetup

Hello Everyone,

Our next meetup will be sponsored by Tenable (https://www.tenable.com/) in their new Dublin office.

Our aim is to continue delivering high quality technical content, so get ready for another CPPDUG Monday evening, where we'll have the following talks:

1. "History Is Written by the Winners. How C Programming Language Was Created And What Was Forgotten As a Result." by Oleg Girko (45 min)

Abstract: There is a common perception that progress is linear and everything gets better all the time. Unfortunately, this is not true. Sometimes old achievements are forgotten to be reinvented much later in a different form. Or not reinvented at all. This talk describes one of such cases: rise of minicomputers that resulted in fall of mainframes, what was state of the art in programming languages at that time, how C programming language came to life and thrived on ruins of forgotten technologies, what we lost and still keep reinventing as a result.

2. "Better Numeric Types in C++" by John McFarlane (60 min)

Abstract: This talk introduces a number library, CNL, which improves on the integers that C++ provides. It will also be valuable to anyone who wants a better grasp on how to use integers safely and effectively.

This event will be as informal as possible and we'll have some pizza and drinks to help everyone enjoy the evening and socialise. Please feel free to interrupt the speakers if you have any questions.

Our meetups are open to everyone and we welcome and support diversity. Any form of harassment or discrimination will not be tolerated and we will investigate any reports of such activities and take any action required to prevent them from recurring. Our code of conduct is available here https://cppdug.github.io/codeofconduct and we encourage anyone to share any concerns with the organisers.