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Programming Languages

Subject : it-skills
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1. 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.






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






3. The language of the Department of Defense






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 8 Bit character encoding used on IBM mainframe operating systems. Alphanumeric data is stored on tape/disk in this format






25. 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






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






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






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






29. The most widely used language for business applications






30. Language used primarily for science applications






31. An _________ is used to translate a program into machine code every time the program is run






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






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






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






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






36. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation






37. The oldest high-level language.






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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






50. 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