ONE 6th FORM Declarative Language

Which paradigm dictates WHAT should be done but not HOW it should be done?

• Declarative

• Imperative

• Object Oriented

• Low level

Decalarative languages make use of sequence, selection and iteration.

• True

• False

Regular expressions and SQL belong to which paradigm?

• Imperative

• Object oriented

• Declarative

• Low level

Which is NOT a programming paradigm:

• Imperative

• Declarative

• Object Oriented

• Logic

• Java

The action of moving up and down various paths to find a solution is called what?

• backtracking

• repeating

• breaking

• sorting

• shifting

Prolog is an example of what type of programming paradigm?

• Declarative

• Imperative

• Object oriented

• Procedural

State the advantages of procedural programming

• Can be applied to a wide range of problems.
• Relatively easy to write and interpret.
• Reuse of code through inheritance
• Flexibility through polymorphism

State a use of declarative programming

• Expert Systems/ Knowledge-based Systems.
• Artificial Intelligence
• Sequential Execution
• Machine Architecture

1. What is a programming paradigm?

• Steps of solving a problem

• Steps to programming

• Steps to a programming language

• Both a method of problem solving and an approach to programming language design

Prolog is an example of what type of programming paradigm?

• Object Oriented

• Procedural

• Logic