Coding standards ( Was: An odd thing)

["Kempter, Eric" <EKempter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Free format code can be as unreadable as fixed format code, however, this   
is why good programming shops have programming standards.  In C, you can   
write an entire program in one very complex line of code but how many IS   
managers would allow for that?  Free format does not have to equate to   
unreadable code.

Eric Kempter
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
E-Mail: EKempter@smsocs.com


 -----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-owner [SMTP:midrange.com!midrange-l-owner@mcs.com]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 1997 1:26 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L
Subject: Re: An odd thing


>> When IBM FINALLY sees the light and makes ILE RPG COMPLETELY   
free-format,
THEN
>> I'd be inclined to lean that way.

Actually I'd prefer free-form too; for myself, since I am so wonderful.
<g>

But for all of the below average programmers (that'd be half or more,
right?) I'd like at least some structure there that is recognisable a few
weeks later.  Rambo-style makes me jittery.

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Booth Martin
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