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Department of computer science and information Concepts of Programming Languages Level: 5 G(147)) Course: CS 337 Assignment No. 1 1. Why is it useful for a programmer to have some background in language design, even though he or she may never actually design a programming language? 2. How can knowledge of programming language characteristics benefit the whole computing community? 3. What programming language has dominated scientific computing over the past 50 years? 4. What programming language has dominated business applications over the past 50 years? 5. What programming language has dominated artificial intelligence over the past 50 years? 6. In what language is most of UNIX written? 7. What is the disadvantage of having too many features in a language? 8. How can user-defined operator overloading harm the readability of aprogram? 9. What is one example of a lack of orthogonality in the design of C? 10. What language used orthogonality as a primary design criterion? 11. What primitive control statement is used to build more complicated control statements in languages that lack them? 12. What construct of a programming language provides process abstraction? 13. What does it mean for a program to be reliable? 14. Why is type checking the parameters of a subprogram important? 15. What is aliasing? 16. What is exception handling? 17. Why is readability important to writability? 18. How is the cost of compilers for a given language related to the design of that language? 19. What have been the strongest influences on programming language design over the past 50 years? 20. What is the name of the category of programming languages whose structure is dictated by the von Neumann computer architecture? 21. What are the three fundamental features of an object-oriented programming language? 22. What language was the first to support the three fundamental features of object-oriented programming? 23. What is an example of two language design criteria that are in direct conflict with each other? 24. What are the three general methods of implementing a programming language? 25. Which produces faster program execution, a compiler or a pure interpreter? 26. Why is the von Neumann bottleneck important? 27. What are the advantages in implementing a language with a pure interpreter? Download 9.08 Kb. Share with your friends:
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