Structured formatting of Pascal programs

Program indentation and comprehensibility

“…Other research has concentrated on defining a set of rules for programmers to follow when writing Pascal programs. Crider [3] suggests a style that emphasizes the structured aspect of the language by having an introductory phrase such as a while statement followed by all the dependent clauses indented directlv below. As an example, he shows the following: while r > = dd do begin r :=r -dd;…”

A Systematic Literature Review on the Impact of Formatting Elements on Program Understandability

“…Arab (1992) compares the use of block delimiters in the same line as the associated statement, e.g., a loop or a conditional, vs. block delimiters in a separate line. This study consisted of an opinion survey with 30 subjects (22 novices and 8 experts) in which they evaluated three different code presentation schemes in Pascal that propose different patterns to place the block delimiters: (i) Peterson's scheme: BEGIN and END in their own lines (Peterson, 1977), (ii) Crider's scheme: BEGIN and END in the same line of the last statement or declaration (Crider, 1978), and (iii) Gustafson's scheme: BEGIN in the same line as the last statement but END in its own line (Gustafson, 1979). The subjects were asked to classify the three schemes in descending order (Giving an opinion).…”

Possibilities for automated programming style assessment in informatics olympiads

“…Septintajame-aštuntajame dešimtmetyje pasirodė ne vienas straipsnis kuriame buvo analizuojamas programavimo stilius, pateikiami konkretūs pasiūlymai kaip turėt u būti rašoma programa (Baecker, 1988;Crider, 1978;Gilmore, 1984;Grogono, 1979). Vienas žymiausi u ir plačiausiai cituojam u to laikmečio darb u, turėjusi u didelės itakos programavimo stiliaus standart u formavimuisi buvo B.W.…”