CS508-Midterm
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COBOL was the first language that brings the concept of __________.
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A concept similar to Classes in Ada is called _____.
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Computer architecture has a major influence on the design of programming language.
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Lists can be constructed with the help of three basic functions which are ___________.
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A language that is more orthogonal is usually more _________.
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The main design goals of Ada were EXCEPT
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The space operator in SNOBOL has _____ precedence than arithmetic operators.
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PROLOG represent ______ paradigm.
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Pattern . Variable Upon successful completion of pattern matching, the substring matched by the pattern is assigned to the variable as ________
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The __________ of while loop in Ada is same as in C.
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Ada DO NOT support post test loop like do-while loop.
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____ was considered good for describing algorithms.
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SONOBOL is case _______
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Initial version of SONOBOL only supports __________ and string.
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Too much simplicity in language design can also cause problems.
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The more is the Simplicity of a language, the more it will always be readable.
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In LISP, following statement returns the difference of the two lists.
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Ada is a ____ language
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___________ represents the class of languages from functional paradigm.
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In LISP, ___________ is the main tool used for iteration.
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Two important versions of LISP are ________.
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In SONOBOL TABLES can be used in a manner similar to _______.
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Indirect referencing in SONOBOL is same as of _____in C.
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First language that provided the concept of Pointer data type was _______.
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In __________, Enumeration type can also be used as indexes in arrays
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Block statement in Ada is very different to a block in C.
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The variable name has profound effect on ______.
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Following are some of the reasons for studying concepts related to different programming languages EXCEPT
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Which of the following is an incorrect option from the following statements regarding ‘objectives of learning new languages ’?
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“Everything for everybody” was the motive of the language
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One of the major design goals of Ada was
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If a language provides a feature of referencing a variable in more than one way then we say that the language provides _________.
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Learning the implementation details of a language helps in the efficient use of that language.
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_____ are a type of Aliasing.
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____ is used to give comments in Ada language
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Indexes of arrays in Ada DO NOT starts from
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COBOL is mainly designed for _______.
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For immediate value assignment ______ sign is used.
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Following is the correct syntax of ‘for’ statement in Ada.
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First electronic computer was _________
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___________ is an important feature of Ada language used in embedded systems and operating systems. It is used in managing parallel threads of controls.
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The declarative language among the following is
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Binary operator in SONOBOL must have at least ________ spaces on both sides.
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Too much Orthogonality reduces Readability.
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SNOBOL was designed for ___________ purpose.
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In SONOBOL can the size of the array be determined at run time.
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