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Programming Languages

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






30. The language of the Department of Defense






31. 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






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






33. 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






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






35. The most widely used language for business applications






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






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






38. Basic command - directory of files: _________






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






40. Language used primarily for science applications






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






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






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






44. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation






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






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






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






48. 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






49. 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






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