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Advanced COBOL for Structured and Object-Oriented Programming, 3rdEdition

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I have been a programmer since April 1969. Even though I have programmed in most popular languages (c / c++ / smalltalk, java , algol, python, PL/1, many different assemblers etc), COBOL is still the MOST used language in the corporate world. As IBM says, "80% of the world's data is still on mainframes, 80% of the world's programs are still written in COBOL. I am contracting to a large corporation now, and they are having to retrain their young java programmers in how to write (NEW not legacy) COBOL applications!

With that background, I now get to the point (finally)! Buy this book. It is excellent. Also buy COBOL Unleashed; it too is invaluable.

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Very well put together, clear, concise. Not a beginners book by any stretch (assuming there are still people learning COBOL) ? But, its a great reference book and like the last review, it helps you remember all the stuff you'd forgotten over the years doing COBOL. Intermediate to Advanced level....

1) Positive aspects. Complete (as far as I can judge, because I never read it from cover to cover), detailed and nevertheless concise enough to be my daily quick-reference. The book covers mainframe as well as pc-Cobol. 2) Neutral aspect. Not recommendable as a course book and not recommendable for beginners, I would say. But quite well fit to rehearse parts of Cobol knowledge that slipped away from my memory. So the title of the book is quite appropriate. 3) Negative aspect. Only one way of spacing for subscripts is presented, without further comment. But it is the pc-Cobol way of spacing, it doesn't work that way under MVS. Which is a very slight shortcoming however, to my opinion.

As a C++ programmer working on a product with 2 COBOL components (2/90), I found this text to be an indispensable COBOL reference. The author classifies language constructs into essential, sometimes used, rarely used, and archaic. The text is comprehensive including reserved words, program constructs, tables, indexed files, dates, Y2000, report writer, and client-server architecture (one exception is limited coverage of CISCs transaction processing). Both PC and mainframe COBOL environments are covered. Organizing COBOL code into paragraphs, sections, subprograms, functions, and classes (object-oriented is not yet standardized) is demonstrated.

The text illustrates each COBOL feature with either a code fragment or a sample program. A well-conceived programming style for COBOL is recommended using structured programming. A coherent discussion of archaic programming styles helped me comprehend areas of our COBOL code where periods are used instead of END-IF statements.

nocesito el software de cobol orientado a objetos. le agradezco me escriba a la brevedad posible y me envie las condiciones de pago