Intro

Question 1

List 5 primary programming domains.

Answer 1

Scientific applications, business applications, AI, systems programming, web software.

Question 2

List the 4 language evaluation criteria.

Answer 2

Readability, writability, reliability, and cost.

Question 3

What are 4 things that affect a language’s readability?

Answer 3

Overall simplicity, Orthogonality, (predefined) data types, syntax considerations.

Question 4

What are 3 things that affect a language’s writability?

Answer 4

Simplicity (orthogonality), support for abstraction (code reuse), and expressivity.

Question 5

What are 4 things that affect a language’s reliability?

Answer 5

Type checking, exception handling, aliasing, readability/writability.

Question 6

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