Evolution of Programming Languages Course Notes for COMP 348 and COMP 6411 These notes may be copied for students who are taking either COMP 348 Principles of Programming Languages or COMP 6411 Comparative Study of Programming Languages. First draft: Revised: August 1999 August 2002 c Peter Grogono 1999‚ 2002 Department of Computer Science Concordia University Montreal‚ Quebec CONTENTS ii Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 1.2 How important are programming languages? . . . . . .
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Programming language generations The terms "first generation" and "second generation" programming language were not used prior to the coining of the term "third-generation"; none of these three terms are mentioned in early compendiums of programming languages. The introduction of a third generation of computer technology coincided with the creation of a new generation of programming languages. The marketing for this generational shift in machines correlated with several important changes in what
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The Ideal HPC Programming Language Ebony Prioleau Strayer University CIS110 Computer Program Design Douglas Reed November 30‚ 2014 “This article describes programmability studies undertaken by Sun Microsystems in its HPCS participation.” FORTRAN has been the preferred language among the High Performance Computing (HPC) community‚ it is less likely that every programmer would have ended up preferring FORTRAN and more likely that the problems with the original source codes have more to do with reasons
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I will examine the different generations of programming languages and discuss basic facts about each. I will also discuss the Fifth Generation Language‚ which some individuals may or may not agree exists. Computers can understand only ones and zeros‚ or binary language. Basically ones and zeros represent on or off signals to the computer‚ and are known as bits. The first-generation programming instructions were entered through the front panel switches of the computer system. On the earliest computers
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a program written by a software engineer‚ into object code‚ those same instructions written in a language the computer ’s central processing unit (CPU) can read and interpret. Software engineers write source code using high level programming languages that people can understand. Computers cannot directly execute source code‚ but need a compiler to translate these instructions into a low level language called machine code. Compiler: How It Works Compilers collect and reorganize (compile) all
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Concepts of Programming Languages • Programming Domains • Language Evaluation Criteria • Influences on Language Design • Language Categories • Language Design Trade-Offs • Implementation Methods • Programming Environments Copyright © 2006 Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. 1-2 Reasons for Studying Concepts of Programming Languages • Increased ability to express ideas • Improved background for choosing appropriate languages • Increased ability to learn new languages • Better understanding
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Table of Contents Dive Into Python ...............................................................................................................................................................1 Chapter 1. Installing Python...........................................................................................................................................2 1.1. Which Python is right for you?...................................................................................................
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There are three basic types of programming languages. These languages are machine‚ assembly‚ and high-level languages. Machine language is just a sequence of zeroes and ones. Different combinations of zeroes and ones mean different things and sends different instruction to the computer. An advantage of this is that this is the only language that a computer can understand directly. However a fallback is that this is not very easy for humans to be able to either read it or write it. It will be hard
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Programming Programming Logic and Design‚ 6th Edition Chapter 3 Exercises 1. In Figure 3-10 the process of buying and planting flowers in the spring was shown using the same structures as the generic example in Figure 3-9. Describe some other process with which you are familiar using exactly the same logic. Answer: Student answers will vary widely. They should come up with processes that fit the generic logic shown in Figure 3-9. Some examples could include: making a dentist appointment
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Computer programming (often shortened to programming) is a process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable programs. It involves activities such as analysis‚ understanding‚ thinking‚ and generically solving such problems resulting in an algorithm‚ verification of requirements of the algorithm including its correctness and its resource consumption‚ implementation (commonly referred to as coding[1][2]) of the algorithm in a target programming language. Source code is
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