Good Style

You've been told in your programming assignments and lessons that style is important, but perhaps you've been wondering what ``good style'' means for a FORTRAN program.

There are certain things that lend to good style in a FORTRAN program:

• No implicit typing (i.e. IMPLICIT NONE statement)

• Good choices for variable names

• Commenting the FORTRAN source code

• Clear and understandable output and prompts for users

• Indentation

• PARAMETER statements for named constants

Let's take a look at each one of these and discuss why they are considered part of good style.

• No Implicit Typing
• Descriptive Variable Names
• Commenting the FORTRAN Source Code
• Clear and Understandable Output and Prompts
• Indentation
• PARAMETER Statements for Named Constants
• Two Examples