Beginning COBOL for Programmers

Acknowledgments

Special thanks go to Steve Anglin, who started the whole process of my writing this book, and to Matthew Moodie, Anamika Panchoo, Melissa Maldonado, and Massimo Nardone, the team of editors at Apress whose work was so invaluable in shaping the text. I would especially like to thank Tiffany Taylor for her excellent suggestions and for all her work in eliminating my errors. Any errors that remain are my responsibility, but without her help, there would be many more of them.

I thank my family for all their support. I thank Redmond O’Brien, who acted as a patient sounding board for ideas, and Dermot Shinners-Kennedy, for our discussions about COBOL. The results of those discussions find many a reflection in this book. Finally, I thank ...