CHOOSING CONSTRUCTS TO BE ARTICULATED

How can an organization determine particular constructs which are significant, and should therefore be clearly signalled in the text of its programs. Obviously this can sometimes be determined by the corporate experience of an organization, but the organization should look at a wider body of experience, and regard many developments in language design as representing a felt need to codify experience in isolating particularly significant kinds of constructs, such as those introduced into languages such as ADA, COBOL-85 and FORTRAN-90, as well as Functional and Object-Oriented Programming Languages.