Principles of Programming Languages

Fortran, Algol and COBOL are all PLs under scientific domain

• TRUE

• FALSE

Perl was created based on Ruby programming language, both scripting languages.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Von Neumann Architecture uses memory to store both instructions and data. The processor reads them, performs the needed operations, and then puts the result back into memory.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Most of the early PLs are under the scientific domain.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Fortran 95 allows use of special words as names for program variables.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Readability, writability, and reliability are commonly applied as definitive metrics to identify the best programming language across all domains.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Variable names in Fortran I is up to ___ characters

• 6

• 5

• 4

• 3

LISP is based on the data structure ___________.

• Linked-List

• Array

• Trees

• Matrix

The programming language initially used for ATMs.

• COBOL

• Smalltalk

• Ada

• Java

PL developed by students for students to learn programming

• BASIC

• PL/1

• SNOBOL

• APL