@article {17410,
	title = {The effect of scope delimiters on program comprehension},
	journal = {Software: Practice and Experience},
	volume = {13},
	year = {1983},
	month = {1983/09/01/},
	pages = {817 - 824},
	abstract = {Scope delimiters, such as BEGIN-END or DO-END, are used in many programming languages, but they can lengthen and clutter a program listing. This paper provides experimental evidence that ENDIF or ENDWHILE statement terminators make for easier to comprehend programs than BEGIN-END pairs surrounding compound statements.},
	keywords = {Programming language design, Scope delimiters, Software psychology},
	isbn = {1097-024X},
	doi = {10.1002/spe.4380130908},
	url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.4380130908/abstract},
	author = {Sykes,Floyd and Tillman,Raymond T and Shneiderman, Ben}
}
