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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. 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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. The most widely used language for business applications






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






14. 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






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






16. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. The language of the Department of Defense






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






43. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






44. Language used primarily for science applications






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






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






47. Basic command - directory of files: _________






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






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






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






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