Re: RPGIV: RPGIII to get a facelift?

[Michael Jacobsen <MJacobsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that poorly written code is hard to read no matter whether it is 
in Free or Fixed.  Writing bad code in /Free will be harder to read than 
good code written in fixed.  I do believe though, that good code written 
in /Free is easier to read than good code written in fixed.  People who 
write well-written fixed RPG use good line spacing between blocks of code. 
 With /Free, you can do that AND indent the code, which improves it even 
more. 


rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 12/27/2004 03:30:35 PM:

> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:12:54 -0500, Brad Stone <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > 4.  I can read fixed code just fine (well, MY fixed code...
> > I've seen ugly fixed code, but it's not as ugly as some of
> > the bad free format I've seen)
> 
> I agree with you, that some people write fixed RPG well, what with
> line spacing, etc. so that it is relatively easy to read.  The problem
> some of us have is that some people write code with no comments, no
> line spacing, and no summary at the top of their code.  Nothing!
> 
> This style of writing is not improved by moving to /Free.  They will
> just do the same thing using free format -- no spacing, no
> indentation, no comments, nothing.  People need to learn to write more
> understandable code, and jsut moving to /Free doesn't fix it
> automatically.