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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A COBOL BOOK FOR ALL SEASONS
This book is the ultimate end to the evolution of COBOL from spaghetti code to structured programming to legacy systems. Robert Levey discusses how most legacy systems probably started out as well structured code and, over several years of maintenance, evolved into structured linguine (my metaphor). He then offers a solution of reengineering with objects. This book...
Published on May 19, 2000 by Harold Gower
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Book needs a major rewrite
I found this book to be dry and poorly laid out. Examples were often mentioned on one page, but shown on the next. This resulted in having to flip pages back and forth to view code snippets while reading about them. The book is too light on example source code and does not contain any complete programs. The ideas presented by the author are a broad overview. After...
Published on February 14, 2006 by John Croucher
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A COBOL BOOK FOR ALL SEASONS,
This review is from: Reengineering Cobol With Objects: Step by Step to Sustainable Legacy Systems (Object Technology Series) (Hardcover)
This book is the ultimate end to the evolution of COBOL from spaghetti code to structured programming to legacy systems. Robert Levey discusses how most legacy systems probably started out as well structured code and, over several years of maintenance, evolved into structured linguine (my metaphor).He then offers a solution of reengineering with objects. This book is a must for all COBOL programmers and analysts both young and old (green and seasoned)
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Book needs a major rewrite,
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This review is from: Reengineering Cobol With Objects: Step by Step to Sustainable Legacy Systems (Object Technology Series) (Hardcover)
I found this book to be dry and poorly laid out. Examples were often mentioned on one page, but shown on the next. This resulted in having to flip pages back and forth to view code snippets while reading about them. The book is too light on example source code and does not contain any complete programs. The ideas presented by the author are a broad overview. After reading this book, I have no idea about how to really start implementing them.
If you are wanting an overview of objects and how they relate to COBOL, read this book. If you are looking for a Step by Step to Sustainable Legacy Systems, then this is not the book for you. In addition the book mentions the author, Robert Levey, is president of Prospect Systems in Nutley, NJ. However, using Google, I could not find a web site (or any information for that matter) for this company. |
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Reengineering Cobol With Objects: Step by Step to Sustainable Legacy Systems (Object Technology Series) by Robert Levey (Hardcover - Jan. 1996)
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