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Programming Languages

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. The most widely used language for business applications






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. Divisions of COBOL programs: _________ and identification and environment






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. 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






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






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






34. 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






35. 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






36. The oldest high-level language.






37. 8 Bit character encoding used on IBM mainframe operating systems. Alphanumeric data is stored on tape/disk in this format






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






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






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






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






42. 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






43. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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