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Programming Languages

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






10. 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






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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






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






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






27. Language used primarily for science applications






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation






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






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






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






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






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






41. 8 Bit character encoding used on IBM mainframe operating systems. Alphanumeric data is stored on tape/disk in this format






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






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






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






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






46. The oldest high-level language.






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






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






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






50. 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