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Programming Languages

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1. Language that interfaces directly with the operating system. It indicates when and how application programs will be processed.






2. A mixture of natural languages and symbols and terms and other features commonly used in high-level languages. E.g. + or - or * etc.






3. This generation of languages - zeros and ones - machine code






4. The oldest high-level language.






5. In machine language the symbol for a base register is ____






6. Divisions of COBOL programs: data and identification and _________






7. A Language with good error diagnostics - is easy to use and has real-time coding






8. The most basic type of programming language - immediately executable instructions and making efficient use of computer storage. Manipulation of individual bits by instruction. Not easy in design or writing






9. It is the ancestor of the family of functional languages that emphasize evaluating expressions rather than executing imperative commands.






10. In assembly language the place at which computer control can be transferred is marked by the _________ field






11. In assembly language the location of data values in primary memory is given by the _________ field






12. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation






13. a popular high-level language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. The language was originally named OAK and unsuccessfully used for set-top devices but hit it big after being renamed in 1995 and introduced to the World Wide Web. It is a






14. Language capable of treating alphabetic text as a set of logic statements






15. A programming language in which the source code of programs is composed of mnemonic instructions- each of which corresponds directly to a machine instruction for a particular processor.






16. It is a high-level compiled language built upon ALGOL. It is best known for its emphasis on structured programming techniques and strong typing; because of this it was extremely popular as a teaching language in the 1980s and early 1990s though it wa






17. The program that translate a source program (high level language) into an object program.






18. A procedural imperative language designed for scientific and engineering and business and systems programming applications






19. A fully compiled or assembled program ready to be loaded into the computer.






20. The language of the Department of Defense






21. Components of assembly language: operand and _________ _________ and name






22. Components of assembly language : _________ and operation code and name






23. A fourth-generation programming language - financial modeling language - eventually out-competed by spreadsheets






24. rogramming paradigm describes computation in terms of statements that change a program state. COBOL or C or Java etc






25. Divisions of COBOL programs: _________ and identification and environment






26. Type of error: a language command being spelled incorrectly






27. In machine language purpose of a _________ _________ is to signify which register to use when computational procedures are required






28. A program written in a high-level language.






29. This generation of languages - Assembly Language - symbolic not portable






30. It was created in the late 1950s - most modern procedural languages reflect its overall structure and design






31. In order to translate a program written in a high-level language into machine code a(n) _________ is used






32. In machine language the purpose of an _________ _________ is to tell the control unit what data processing operation is to be performed.






33. A language developed by IBM which features mathematical excellence and strong input/output capabilities






34. It examines a source program statement by statement - and the resulting machine language instructions are immediately executed before the next statement is examined.






35. The purpose of ___________ language is to condense machine code instructions into simpler instructions. Its disadvantage is that it is machine dependent. It is not immediately executable.






36. a popular compiled high-level language - similar to C but witho bject-oriented features (classes) generic programming (templates) and exception handlingwith - developed by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1985 at Bell Labs






37. 8 Bit character encoding used on IBM mainframe operating systems. Alphanumeric data is stored on tape/disk in this format






38. Source code may be converted into an executable image by a(n) ______________






39. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






40. In machine language the symbol for a displacement value is _________






41. A Language with a very precise structure that is particularly good for training serious programmers; is procedural and is based on ALGOL






42. The most widely used language for business applications






43. In machine language the symbol for an index register is _________






44. Programming paradigm that expresses the logic of a computation without describing its control flow. Regex or logic programming or functional programming or xslt or svg






45. Components of assembly language: operand and operation code and _________






46. A program that converts from assembly language to machine language.






47. The purpose of symbols in assembly language is to represent _________ locations






48. It allows users to write programs in a language similar to natural language.






49. Components of machine code: 1. register number 2. operation code 3. ___________ ____________






50. Components of machine code: 1. ___________ ____________ 2. operation code 3. data address