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Programming Languages

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






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






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






4. A Language with a very precise structure that is particularly good for training serious programmers; is procedural and is based on ALGOL






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






6. 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






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






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. 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.






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






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






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






13. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






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






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






16. The language of the Department of Defense






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






18. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Language used primarily for science applications






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. The oldest high-level language.






41. 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






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






43. 8 Bit character encoding used on IBM mainframe operating systems. Alphanumeric data is stored on tape/disk in this format






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






45. 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






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






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






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






49. 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.






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