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Programming Languages

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1. An ____________ yields a value. For example: 2 + 2 yields 4.






2. The most widely used language for business applications






3. Basic command - directory of files: _________






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






5. It is a high-level and highly standardized language that remains very "close to the hardware" and allows the programmer to perform useful fast and dangerous tricks.






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






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






8. The language of the Department of Defense






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






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






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






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






13. Divisions of COBOL programs: data and _________ and environment






14. Source code may be executed immediately with the aid of a(n) ________________.






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






16. 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.






17. This generation of languages include - RPG or SQL or Mathamatica or PL/SQL or Cold Fusion - subset of Domain Specific Languages






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






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






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






21. A _________ _________ is a set of print statements or screen-display statements whose output enables a programmer to follow a computer's processing path during execution






22. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






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






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






25. The oldest high-level language.






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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






37. Components of machine code: 1. register number 2. ___________ ____________ 3. data address






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






39. This generation of languages - easier to read - procedural - portable - e.g. COBOL or C or C++ or Pascal or Python






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






41. It is an interpreted language designed principally to process text - often used for web CGI scripts and parsing log files.






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






43. 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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. 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






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






50. The purpose of an _________ ___________ is to detect syntax errors in an assembly language program