Midterm CS102: Session 2
Implementation Methods Hybrid Implementation Systems
-A compromise between compilers and pure interpreters -Use: Small and medium systems when efficiency is not the first concern
Language Categories Imperative
-Central features are variables, assignment statements, and iteration -Include languages that support object-oriented programming -Include scripting languages -Include the visual languages -Examples: C, Java, Perl, JavaScript, Visual BASIC .NET, C++
Imperative languages, most dominant, because of von Neumann computers and following features
-Data and programs stored in memory -Memory is separate from CPU -Instructions and data are piped from memory to CPU -Basis for imperative languages
Language Design Trade-Offs Reliability vs. cost of execution
-Example: Java demands all references to array elements be checked for proper indexing, which leads to increased execution costs
Influences on Language Design Computer Architecture
-Languages are developed around the prevalent computer architecture, known as the von Neumann architecture
Language Categories Functional
-Main means of making computations is by applying functions to given parameters -Examples: LISP, Scheme, ML, F#
Language Categories Markup Programming Hybrid
-Markup languages extended to support some programming -Examples: JSTL, XSLT
Implementation Methods Pure Interpretation
-Programs are interpreted by another program known as an interpreter -Use: Small programs or when efficiency is not an issue
Implementation Methods Compilation
-Programs are translated into machine language; includes JIT systems -Use: Large commercial applications
Language Categories logic
-Rule-based (rules are specified in no particular order) -Example: Prolog
Language Design Trade-Offs Readability vs. writability
Example: APL provides many powerful operators (and a large number of new symbols), allowing complex computations to be written in a compact program but at the cost of poor readability
Language Design Trade-Offs Writability (flexibility) vs. reliability
Example: C++ pointers are powerful and very flexible but are unreliable
Influences on Language Design Program Design Methodologies
New software development methodologies (e.g., object-oriented software development) led to new programming paradigms and by extension, new programming languages
Programming Methodologies Influences Middle 1980s
Object-oriented programming -Data abstraction + inheritance + polymorphism
Programming Methodologies Influences Late 1960s
People efficiency became important; readability, better control structures -structured programming -top-down design and step-wise refinement
Programming Methodologies Influences Late 1970
Process-oriented to data-oriented -data abstraction
Programming Methodologies Influences: 1950s and early 1960
Simple applications; worry about machine efficiency
Well-known computer architecture:
Von Neumann
Fetch-execute-cycle (on a von Neumann architecture computer)
initialize the program counter repeat forever fetch the instruction pointed by the counter increment the counter decode the instruction execute the instruction end repeat
Basis for imperative languages
•Variables model memory cells •Assignment statements model piping •Iteration is efficient
