Beginning COBOL for Programmers
Beginning COBOL for Programmers is a comprehensive, sophisticated tutorial and modular skills reference on the COBOL programming language for established programmers. This book is for you if you are a developer who would like to—or must—add COBOL to your repertoire. Perhaps you recognize the opportu...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
Apress
2014.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Colección: | Expert's voice in COBOL
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629371006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents at a Glance""; ""Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Technical Reviewer""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction to COBOL""; ""What Is COBOL?""; ""COBOL�s Target Application Domain""; ""COBOL�s Fitness for Its Application Domain""; ""History of COBOL""; ""Beginnings""; ""COBOL Standards""; ""COBOL ANS 68""; ""COBOL ANS 74 (External Subprograms)""; ""COBOL ANS 85 (Structured Programming Constructs)""; ""COBOL ANS 2002 (OO Constructs)""; ""The Argument for COBOL (Why COBOL?)""; ""Dominance of COBOL in Enterprise Computing""
- ""Danger, Difficulty, and Expense of Replacing Legacy COBOL Applications""""Replacement with a COTS Package""; ""Complete Rewrite""; ""Automatic Language Conversion""; ""Wrapping the Legacy System""; ""Code Renovation""; ""Migration to Commodity Hardware and Software""; ""Shortage of COBOL Programmers: Crisis and Opportunity""; ""COBOL: The Hidden Asset""; ""Advantages of Bespoke Software""; ""Characteristics of COBOL Applications""; ""COBOL Applications Can Be Very Large""; ""COBOL Applications Are Very Long-Lived""; ""COBOL Applications Often Run in Critical Areas of Business""
- ""COBOL Applications Often Deal with Enormous Volumes of Data""""Characteristics of COBOL""; ""COBOL Is Self-Documenting""; ""COBOL Is Stable""; ""COBOL Is Simple""; ""COBOL Is Nonproprietary""; ""COBOL Is Maintainable""; ""Summary""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2: COBOL Foundation""; ""COBOL Idiosyncrasies""; ""COBOL Syntax Metalanguage""; ""Some Notes on Syntax Diagrams""; ""Example Metalanguage""; ""Divisions""; ""Sections""; ""Paragraphs""; ""Sentences""; ""Statements""; ""Structure of COBOL Programs""; ""The Four Divisions""; ""IDENTIFICATION DIVISION""; ""ENVIRONMENT DIVISION""
- ""DATA DIVISION""""File Section""; ""Working-Storage Section""; ""Data Hierarchy""; ""PROCEDURE DIVISION""; ""Shortest COBOL Program""; ""COBOL Coding Rules""; ""Name Construction""; ""Comments about Naming""; ""Comments about Program Formatting""; ""Comments about Programming Style""; ""Example Programs""; ""The COBOL Greeting Program""; ""The DoCalc Program""; ""The Condition Names Program""; ""Chapter Exercise""; ""Where to Get a COBOL Compiler""; ""Micro Focus Visual COBOL""; ""OpenCOBOL""; ""Raincode COBOL""; ""Compileonline COBOL""; ""Fujitsu NetCOBOL""; ""Summary""; ""References""
- ""Chapter 3: Data Declaration in COBOL""""Categories of Program Data""; ""COBOL Literals""; ""Alphanumeric Literals""; ""Numeric Literals""; ""Data Items (Variables)""; ""Data Type Enforcement""; ""Figurative Constants""; ""Elementary Data Items""; ""Declaring Elementary Data Items""; ""PICTURE Clause Symbols""; ""PICTURE Clause Notes""; ""Example Declarations""; ""Assignment in COBOL""; ""The MOVE Verb""; ""MOVE Syntax""; ""MOVE Rules""; ""MOVE Combinations""; ""MOVE Examples""; ""Alphanumeric MOVEs""; ""Numeric MOVEs""; ""Example Set 1""; ""Example Set 2""; ""Structured Data""
- ""Group Data Items""
