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Programming Languages

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






2. The most widely used language for business applications






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






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






5. 8 Bit character encoding used on IBM mainframe operating systems. Alphanumeric data is stored on tape/disk in this format






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






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






8. Language used primarily for science applications






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. The oldest high-level language.






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






30. 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






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






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






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






43. 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






44. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






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






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






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






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






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






50. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation