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Coding Standards for HLL Programs

This section describes coding standards for HLL programs, including CL, RPG III, COBOL, and PL/1.

The program coding standards should not only make programs as readable as possible at a workstation, but also achieve a high degree of consistency in the way in which programs are structured and the style in which they are laid out. This makes it much easier for different programmers to examine and maintain each other's work. It also makes it easier to copy sections of code from one place to another.