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Overview
This book walks COBOL users through the next phase of COBOL: Object-oriented COBOL (OOCOBOL). Written by experts in COBOL programming, Object-Oriented COBOL teaches you how to integrate COBOL with object-oriented methodologies. It provides explanations and roadmaps that will help you understand, navigate, and successfully integrate analysis and design concepts with enabling OOCOBOL constructs. Designed for current COBOL users and based on the authors' experience teaching object-oriented COBOL, Object-Oriented COBOL can be used by COBOL programmers to begin programming effectively with objects in as little as twelve weeks, significantly less than the steep learning curve of twelve to twenty-four months for Smalltalk and C++. Object-Oriented COBOL also includes extensive examples and experiences, written in OOCOBOL, that explain the defining traits of an object-oriented language, such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.
Synopsis
Walks COBOL users through the next phase of COBOL: Object-Oriented COBOL. Teaches how to integrate COBOL with object-oriented methodologies.
Booknews
A programmers' manual dedicated to providing a strong understanding of object-oriented concepts, furnishing an introduction to the syntax and semantics of Object-Oriented COBOL, and background in analysis and design so users can implement their own small to medium sized applications. The text features design perspectives of CRC cares, and the Rolling Life-Cycle Perspective, strategies for migrating legacy COBOL, and an overview of compilers from Hitachi, IBM, and Micro Focus. The appendices provide additional information on COBOL reserved words, the proposed COBOL 97 language syntax, and program instruction formats. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)