>>>>Look how cleverly I aligned all the punctuation! By the way, there were no other index commands being aligned with this one. Some people need to unlearn what they have learned.
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>>>Keeping punctuation marks alligned doesn't assist readability; keeping similar clauses in a group of similar commands does, since it can help the programmer quickly locate a certain clause.
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>>>It is part of my personal preferences to sometimes allign code this way; it certainly doesn't always make sense (for instance, in SELECT - SQL statements it wouldn't make sense).
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>>>And it is certainly nothing so important that I would place it into the company's coding standards.
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>>Well that's OK I guess. I've decided personal preference is a waste of time. It's almost selfish. Especially when it's imposed on others.
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>>As to this style, I can't see any benefit. Here's another one:
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>>BROW NORM NODE FIEL long long long fieldlist
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>>That's not readable except to the original programmer. Do you remember what the NODE means? I had to look it up.
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>I remeber one of the first my programs writen with CLIPPER 87, I used an abbreviation (I can't remember wich) when we moved to CLIPPER 5.3 that abbreviation was changed to something other. Beleve me since then I have NEVER used abbreviation when write programs :o)

Maybe we should have a programmer's oath - like the medical one. Do no harm. Don't write your code so it drives the next programmer crazy.