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The following are new features of COBOL, 8e. Sample pages illustrating these features are available in Portable Document Format (PDF), which you may download (770K) for review.

1. COBOL 85 features are emphasized throughout the text

  • Differences with COBOL 74 are highlighted
  • Priming Read has been eliminated in COBOL 85
  • In-line PERFORMs are used throughout
  • Scope terminators are used throughout
  • NOT clauses (E.G. NOT AT END, NOT INVALID KEY, etc. are used throughout)

2. Expanded coverage of interactive programming

3. WWW sites that point to COBOL issues are specified throughout the text

  • Shareware programs that deal with four character years in date fields
  • ANSI updates

4. Traditional Stern and Stern pedagogy with new end-of-chapter material

5. A full chapter on Object-Oriented Programming (Chapter 18)

6. Intrinsic Functions have been added to Arithmetic Chapter and integrated throughout the book

7. SCREEN SECTION added to Chapter 6 and integrated throughout the book

8. Maintenance Programming Assignment added to each chapter (starting from Chapter 4)


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