Book Description
If you understand CL and can make it work, you’re ready to use this book to crank your abilities up to the next level. Learn from the expert who helped develop the AS/400 and S/38 and who wrote QUSRTOOL’s TAA tools. Write better CL programs and speed up productivity. You’ll learn more than 200 field-tested techniques to help you implement common CL programming tasks, with exercises at the end of most chapters to solidify your skills. Specifically, in 30 chapters, Sloan offers field-tested techniques that can help you when implementing common CL programming needs (e.g., passing parameters and allocating objects), when working with messages, when working with files, when working with CL programs, when working with IBM-supplied programs, and when setting up your programming environment. In addition, at the end of most chapters, Slao nprovides exercises that help you understand the topics that have been presented and give you the chance to try some of the techniques.
About the Author
Jim Sloan is a retired IBMer who helped develop the S/38 and the AS/400 and who wrote QUSRTOOL’s TAA tools. Jim is a frequent speaker at COMMON, AS/400 technical conferences, and user groups. He runs his own consulting business.
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We don't live in a perfect world where people always do the right thing, where machines always work, or where objects still exist where you left them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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