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Summary: One of the best mainframe programming books.
Review: Ashame something corresponding to Hughes book hasn't been written for Cobol (Stern & Stern is wordy and long in comparison). Robin Vowel's book compliments Hughe's book for a variety of algorithms and none-MVS platforms (emphasizing certain PL/I facilities well).
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Summary: This is an excellent training and reference manual.
Review: Ashame something corresponding to Hughes book hasn't been written for Cobol (Stern & Stern is wordy and long in comparison). Robin Vowel's book compliments Hughe's book for a variety of algorithms and none-MVS platforms (emphasizing certain PL/I facilities well).NB.
Watch out with buying used copies ... especially if they are overly inexpensive ... .they may not be the latest copy. My review was written concerning the latest copy ...previous copies are less succinct.
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Summary: One of the best mainframe programming books.
Review: Ashame something corresponding to Hughes book hasn't been written for Cobol (Stern & Stern is wordy and long in comparison). Robin Vowel's book compliments Hughe's book for a variety of algorithms and none-MVS platforms (emphasizing certain PL/I facilities well).
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Summary: An excellent manual and tutorial for PL/I programming
Review: I needed a reference manual for PL/I and decided to go for this book. It is very good if you are new to the language or are trying to remember what a particular function does. It even has separate sections at the back of the book for ASCII and EBCDIC tables, how the different PL/I data formats are stored in records, and a good summary at the back showing which functions are supported by the various PL/I compilers and subsets. It is not a the cheapest (hardback) book on PL/I but is well worth the investment.
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Summary: This is an excellent training and reference manual.
Review: This book is utilized as a standard reference guide within our PL/I programming group. It doubles as a training reference for new PL/I programmers and as a general desk reference for programmers with more advanced PL/I programming skills. The overall content is well organized and easy to use.
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