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Mastering
COBOL by Carol Baroudi -
The ultimate reference for COBOL programmers
Carol Baroudi, author
of The Internet for Dummies, has recently pulled together one of the most
complete COBOL references you are going to find. This 900+ page book involved
17 contributors, 4 technical editors, and numerous publishing staff. Those
involved almost constitute a "Who's Who" in COBOL - for example, Jerome
Garfunkel sets the tone with an entertaining foreword. If it's connected
with COBOL it's probably in here!
The first part of
the book provides a COBOL language reference with clear descriptions of
all the standard COBOL syntax; it avoids the lists of rules that most
language references impose on us. You may want the book for this section
alone! Other sections cover programming with CICS, IMS, and SQL, using
JCL, working with legacy programs, coping with the year 2000, what the
Euro is about, communicating with other languages, understanding data
representations, moving to 64-bit processors, what's coming in the next
COBOL standard, and GUI programming.
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