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Programming Languages

Subject : it-skills
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1. 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.






2. 8 Bit character encoding used on IBM mainframe operating systems. Alphanumeric data is stored on tape/disk in this format






3. 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.






4. 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






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






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






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






8. The most widely used language for business applications






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






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






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






12. 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






13. 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






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






15. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation






16. The language of the Department of Defense






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Language used primarily for science applications






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. The oldest high-level language.






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






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






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






43. 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






44. 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.






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






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






47. Basic command - directory of files: _________






48. 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






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






50. 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