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This link seems to require a paid  ACM membership?    



bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx 10/11/2006 5:34:04 PM >>>
Lim Hock-Chai wrote:

I'm planning on requesting management approval for using free form
RPG
in our application.  Does anybody has any reference materials about
benefit of using free form ...

Here's one study about the benefits of using indentation, "(Program
indentation and Comprehensibility, Richard Miara, et al, CACM Volume
26
Issue 11 (November 1983)":
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358437&dl=ACM&coll=portal (see
the
PDF link near the top).

A quote from the conclusion:

"In summary, we conclude that some indentation does aid program
comprehension. From our results, we suggest that the optimal level of
indentation is 2-4 spaces. No indentation produced significantly lower
mean scores and the subjects found working with this program
difficult.
We conclude that in a large program, no indentation would be a real
hindrance and very difficult to use. The same is true for overly
indented programs."




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