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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16. 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

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

18. The most widely used language for business applications

19. 8 Bit character encoding used on IBM mainframe operating systems. Alphanumeric data is stored on tape/disk in this format

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

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

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

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

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

25. 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