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Programming Languages

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






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






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






4. 8 Bit character encoding used on IBM mainframe operating systems. Alphanumeric data is stored on tape/disk in this format






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






29. The oldest high-level language.






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






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






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






33. 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






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






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






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






37. The language of the Department of Defense






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






39. Basic command - directory of files: _________






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. The most widely used language for business applications






48. 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.






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






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