Week 2c

Question 1

Describe C++

Answer 1

• Developed at Bell Labs by Stroustrup in 1985
• Evolved from C and SIMULA 67
• Facilities for object-oriented programming
• Also has exception handling
• A large and complex language, in part because it supports both procedural and OO programming
• Rapidly grew in popularity, along with OOP
• ANSI standard approved in November, 1997

Question 2

Describe Python

Answer 2

• From the English TV movie “Monty Python Flying Circus“, by
  Guido Van Rossum in 1991
• Scripting language with dynamic types. This is a replacement to
  Perl.
• Inspired by ABC, but is extensible with C libraries, and object
  oriented.

Question 3

Describe Java

Answer 3

• Developed at Sun in the early 1990s
  with original goal of a language for embedded computers
• Principals: Bill Joy, James Gosling, Mike Sheradin, Patrick Naughton
• Original name, Oak, changed for copyright reasons
• Based on C++ but significantly simplified
• Supports only OOP
• Has references, but not pointers

Question 4

Describe Ruby

Answer 4

• by Yukihiro Matsumoto in 1994.
• Ruby has been designed as successor to Perl and
  alternative to Python, to be clearer than the first one, and
  more object oriented than the second one.
• The syntax comes from these two languages, it want to be
  without surprise and natural but may be complex

Question 5

Mention the scripting languages for the web

Answer 5

• JavaScript: Used in Web programming (client side) to
  create dynamic HTML documents
• PHP (1994) :Server-side HTML-resident scripting language –Purely interpreted
• Python: An OO interpreted scripting language

Question 6

Describe C#

Answer 6

• The primary language of the .NET platform
• A successor to both Java and C++
• Includes most of the features of Java, with some modifications,
  as well as some of the features of C++ that were left out of Java
• Can be used for both .NET applications for the Web, as well as a general-purpose programming language

Question 7

How is julia code compiled

Answer 7

• Julia code is compiled through the LLVM JIT compiler and it runs like an interpreter