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Programming Languages

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






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






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






16. 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






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






18. 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






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






27. The language of the Department of Defense






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






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






30. 8 Bit character encoding used on IBM mainframe operating systems. Alphanumeric data is stored on tape/disk in this format






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






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






33. The most widely used language for business applications






34. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation






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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. The oldest high-level language.