CS1301 - Interactive Quiz 10

____ combines the power of a high-level language with the ability to circumvent that level of abstraction and work at the assembly-language-like level.

C

____ is designed to make improvements over C++ in safe usage, and it shares many features with Java.

C#

____ was designed to serve business needs such as managing inventories and payrolls.

COBOL

____ has list-processing capabilities; instead of taking a list and extracting the first element or the rest of the list minus the first element, it builds up a list by pushing an element onto the front of the list.

F#

Which of the following was the first high-level programming language that was actually implemented?

FORTRAN

____ programming specifies various transformations of data and then allows combinations of transformations to be performed.

Functional

Excessive and careless use of ____ in FORTRAN can make a program very difficult to read.

GO TOs

____ is an open source language developed at Google.

Go

____ documents consist of the text to be displayed on a Web page, together with a number of special characters: tags that achieve formatting, special effects, and references to other similar documents.

HTML

All .NET programs—in whatever language—are compiled into ____ code.

Microsoft Intermediate Language

Which of the following is a server-side scripting language, that is, its programs run on the web server computing system rather than on the user's own machine?

PHP

Which of the following is the best-known logic programming language?

Prolog

A(n) ____ query does not give specific directions as to how to retrieve the desired result from a database; instead, it merely describes the desired result.

SQL

____ is a new language recently announced by Apple which is designed for building apps on the iOS and OS X operating systems.

Swift

Using the markup language ____,, the writer can create his or her own tags

XML

Java ____ are complete standalone programs that reside and run on a self-contained computer.

applications

In ____ programming, various facts are asserted to be true, and on the basis of these facts, a program can infer or deduce other facts.

logic

C includes a data type called pointer that contains ____.

memory addresses

In a functional programming language, certain functions called ____ are defined as part of the language.

primitives

All ____ language programs tell the computer how to manipulate the contents of memory locations step-by-step.

procedural