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Programming Domains
There are 5 main domains:-Scientific: Large number of floating point computations-Business: Produce reports, use decimal numbers and characters-Artificial Intelligence: symbols rather than numbers manipulated-Systems Programming: need efficiency because of continuous use- Web Software: Markup, scripting, or general-purpose TERM 2
Systems Software
DEFINITION 2 The operating system and the programming support tools of a computer system TERM 3
Readability
DEFINITION 3 Readability is the ease in which programs can be read and understood.-Simplicity-Orthogonality-Control Statements- Data Types and Structures-Syntax Considerations TERM 4
Writability
DEFINITION 4 The ease with which a language can be used to create programs-Simplicity and orthogonality-Support for abstraction: the ability to use complex structures or operations in ways that allow details to be ignored- Expressivity: a set of relatively convenient ways of specifying operations TERM 5
Reliability
DEFINITION 5 Conformance to specifications-Type checking-Exception Handling-Aliasing-Readability and writability
Cost
-Training users to use program-Writing programs-Compiling programs-Executing Programs-Reliability-Maintaining programs-Availability of free compilers TERM 7
Portability
DEFINITION 7 The ease with which programs can be moved from one implementation to another TERM 8
Generality
DEFINITION 8 The applicability to a wide range of applications TERM 9
Well-Definedness
DEFINITION 9 The completeness and precision of the languages official definition TERM 10
Language Categories
DEFINITION 10 -Imperative-Logical-Functional-Object-oriented-Markup
Code Generation
- Machine Code is generated TERM 17
Orthogonality
DEFINITION 17 A relatively small set of primitive constructs can be put together in a relatively small number of ways TERM 18
Aliasing
DEFINITION 18 Presence of two or more distinct referencing methods for the same memory location TERM 19
Imperative Language
DEFINITION 19 Central variables, assignment statements and iteration TERM 20
Functional Language
DEFINITION 20 Main means of making computations is by applying functions to given parameters
Logical Language
Rule-based, although, rules are specifiedin no particular order TERM 22
Object-Oriented Language
DEFINITION 22 Data abstraction, inheritance, late binding TERM 23
Markup Language
DEFINITION 23 Used to specify the layout of information in web documents TERM 24
Load Module
DEFINITION 24 Executable Image -- The user and system code together TERM 25
Linking and Loading
DEFINITION 25 The process of collecting system program and linking them to user program
