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Programming Languages

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1. Language used primarily for science applications






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






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






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






5. The language of the Department of Defense






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






7. The oldest high-level language.






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






9. 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






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






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






12. Basic command - directory of files: _________






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. 8 Bit character encoding used on IBM mainframe operating systems. Alphanumeric data is stored on tape/disk in this format






20. 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.






21. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation






22. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






44. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






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






46. 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.






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






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