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Programming Languages

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






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






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






4. The language of the Department of Defense






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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






14. The most widely used language for business applications






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






16. The oldest high-level language.






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






18. 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






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






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






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






22. 8 Bit character encoding used on IBM mainframe operating systems. Alphanumeric data is stored on tape/disk in this format






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. Language used primarily for science applications






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






47. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






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






49. 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






50. 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