Covers the latest COBOL releases, including Release 3.1. Bookman demonstrates programming techniques, reports on efficiency considerations, and describes debugging techniques. His audience: programmers who have used VS COBOL and want to learn COBOL II, those who know the basics of COBOL II and want to learn more, and those who know COBOL II Release 2 and will be using Release 3. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.