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Programming Languages

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1. 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






2. The language of the Department of Defense






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






20. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation






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






22. The most widely used language for business applications






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. Language used primarily for science applications






35. The oldest high-level language.






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






37. Basic command - directory of files: _________






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






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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






50. 8 Bit character encoding used on IBM mainframe operating systems. Alphanumeric data is stored on tape/disk in this format