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Programming Languages

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






2. The most widely used language for business applications






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






4. Basic command - directory of files: _________






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. A ___________ language or extension language is a programming language that allows control of one or more software applications.






13. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






28. 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






29. A Language which is inexpensive to program and is problem-oriented and is easy to code






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. 8 Bit character encoding used on IBM mainframe operating systems. Alphanumeric data is stored on tape/disk in this format






39. It was developed in 1959 - is especially wordy (just as C and Perl are characterized as terse). The vast majority of Year 2000 problems involved programs written in this language.






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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






48. The language of the Department of Defense






49. Language used primarily for science applications






50. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches