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Programming Languages

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Another name for Reverse Polish Notation






18. The most widely used language for business applications






19. 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






20. Type of error that results in unpredictable program glitches






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






22. 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






23. The oldest high-level language.






24. The language of the Department of Defense






25. 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






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






38. Basic command - directory of files: _________






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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