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






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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. The language of the Department of Defense






17. 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






18. 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






19. The oldest high-level language.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






50. 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.







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