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Programming Languages

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. The language of the Department of Defense






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






13. 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






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






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






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






17. The most widely used language for business applications






18. 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






19. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation






44. 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






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






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






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






48. Language used primarily for science applications






49. 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






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