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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. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






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






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






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






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






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






8. Basic command - directory of files: _________






9. 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.






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






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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation






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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






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






49. 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.






50. The language of the Department of Defense