cs508 quiz 1 and 2 fall 2024

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Q1: To implement a counter-controlled loop in LISP, which of the following statement is used?

A) listLoop

B) iterate

C) defun

D) dotimes (page72) (100% Sure)

Q2: Ada programming language supports ________ types of loops.

A) 3 (page55) (100% Sure)

B) 2

C) 4

D) 5

Q3: A 'switch' statement in C-Language is used for decision making. Its alternative in Ada language is:

A) 'while' statement

B) 'for' statement

C) 'record' statement

D) 'case' statement (page54) (100% Sure)

Q4: ________ was designed primarly for system simulation.

A) APL

B) SNOBOL

C) Pascal

D) Simula (page28) (100% Sure)

Q5: Which of the following is not a descrete type in ada.

A) Integer type

B) Modular type

C) Character type

D) String Type (page 48) (100% Sure)

Q6: The property list in LIPS is a substitue of ________.

A) C/C++ pointer

B) C/C++ structure (page73) (100% Sure)

C) Java Interfaces

D) Compiler

Q7: Which of the following operator is used for pattern matching in SNOBOL?

A) = (Equal)

B) != (Not Equal)

C) . (Dot)

D) (Space) (page 35) (100% Sure)

Q8: In SNOBOL, we can create new patterns by ________ two or more patterns.

A) Matching

B) Replacing

C) Removing

D) Concatenating (page37) (100% Sure)

Q9: A _______ is used to signify a potentially infinite loop in ada.

C) Full loop

B) Simple loop (page55) (100% Sure)

C) Special loop

D) Master loop

Q10: The design and evaluation of a particular _________ is highly dependent on the domain in which it is to be used.

A) computer program

B) programming language (page 6) (100% Sure)

C) datebase system

D) software design

Q11: "Everything for everybody" was the motive of the language.

A) COBOL

B) LIPS

C) PL/1 (page 27) (100% Sure)

D) Java

Q12: Which of the following is not part of standard SNOBOL4 statement structure?

A) Label

B) END (page33) (100% Sure)

C) Statement body

D) goto Field

Q13: The First programming language was ______ developed by Zuse in isolation.

A) Ada

B) Algol

C) PL1

D) Plankalkul (page 24) (100% Sure)

Q14: The tools we used have a profound (and devious!) influence on our ______ habits and, therfore, on our thinking abilities.

A) Seeing

B) Listening

C) Thinking (page5) (100% Sure)

D) Feeling

Q15: Which of the following functions assigns value 5 to symbol y.?

A) >(setq 5 y)

B) >(setq.5.y)

C) >(setq y 5) (page 65) (100% Sure)

D) >(setq.y.5)

Q16: __________ was considered good for describing algorithms.

A) FORTRAN

B) ALGOL (page26) (100% Sure)

C) LIPS

D) ADA

Q17: _______ was developed at Bell Labs by Stroustrup, It envolved from C and SIMULA 67.

A) C#

B) C++ (page 29) (100% Sure)

C) Java

D) Smaltalk

Q18: What is maximum length of variable name in SNOBOL?

A) 16

B) 32

C) 64

D) 120 (page33) (100% Sure)

Q19: The first programming language to support Recursion was __________.

A) ADA

B) LIPS (page 76) (100% Sure)

C) FORTRAN

D) COBOL

Q20: Two important versions of LIPS are ________.

A) Scheme and Atoms

B) Scheme and Common Lisp (page 63) (100% Sure)

C) Common Lisp and defacto

D) List and Common Lisp

Q21: Pascal language was popular in Colleges and universities to teach:

A) Structured Programming (page 28) (100% Sure)

B) Object Oriented Progarmming

C) Business Programming

D) Scripting language

Q22: _______ was developed at Sun in the early 1990s and is based on C++.

A) C#

B) Java (page29) (100% Sure)

C) Pascal

D) Lisp

Q23: Measure of ___________ is considered as the cost of writing programs in a programming language.

A) Readability

B) Writability

C) Reliability

D) Productivity (page 20) (100% Sure)

Q24: ________ was the era when programming language design took an empirical approach.

A) 1940s

B) 1950s (page 30) (100% Sure)

C) 1960s

D) 1970s

Q25: _______ are a type of Aliasing.

A) Pointers (page 97) (100% Sure)

B) Parameters

C) Arays

D) Linked List

Q26: Some languages allow special keywords for signaling the start and end of a construct, making it more ____ and less prone to errors.

A) Readable (page 17) (100% Sure)

B) Writable

C) Listenable

D) Watchable

Q27: In the Decimal fixed point type, the distance between values is implemented as a power of ________.

A) 2

B) 10 (page50) (100% Sure)

C) 8

D) 16

Q28: Following are some of the reasons for studying concepts realted to different programming languages EXCEPT:

A) Increase ability to learn a new languages

B) Increase capability to design communicatoin links (page 05) (100% Sure)

C) Increase ability to design new language

D) Increased capacity to express programming concepts

Q29: Which of the following statement is correct about SNOBOL?

A) Poor Readability Poor Writability(page 44) (100% Sure)

B) Poor Readability Good Writability

C) Good Readability Poor Writability

D) Good Readability Good Writability

Q30: A query given to a PROLOG system:

A) is a pattern matching exercise (page 78) (100% Sure)

B) cannot contain variables

C) is treated an object

D) does not involve database   

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