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Programming Languages

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






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






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






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






6. The oldest high-level language.






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






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






9. 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






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






11. 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






12. Basic command - directory of files: _________






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






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






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






16. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Language used primarily for science applications






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. 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






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






44. 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






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






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






47. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






48. 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.






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






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