An incremental object-oriented migration strategy for RPG legacy systems

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-25

  Canfora, Gerardo ^a   De Lucia, Andrea ^a   Di Lucca, Giuseppe A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

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EID: 0002734352     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194099000036     Document Type: Article

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