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Programming Languages

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






2. Language used primarily for science applications






3. The oldest high-level language.






4. 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.






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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 with good error diagnostics - is easy to use and has real-time coding






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






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






18. Basic command - directory of files: _________






19. 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






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






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






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






23. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. The language of the Department of Defense






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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. The most widely used language for business applications






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






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






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






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






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