Exam 9: The Tower of Babel

The functions "car" and "cdr" are known as ____ functions.

In a functional programming language, the only functions that the programmer can use are the ones defined as part of the language.

FORTRAN and COBOL were the dominant high-level languages of the 1960s.

A(n) ____ language is also called a procedural language.

In ____ programming, multiple copies of the same subtask or multiple subtasks of the same problem are performed simultaneously by different processors.

What language was the UNIX operating system developed in?

LISP and Prolog are often used in artificial intelligence work.

____ programming consists of various transformations on items.

A FORTRAN program filled with "GO TO" statements that send the flow of control to multiple places is considered elegant code.

____ is the most widely used language for writing system software.

____ is the language used to frame database queries.

Which of the following is a functional programming language?

COBOL programs are highly portable across many different COBOL compilers.

A ____ language is a lightweight language that is translated, then executed, statement by statement.

Neural networks are a form of parallelism.

In ____ programming, a program's actions are viewed as a series of logical deductions from known facts.

____ programming consists of various transformations on items.

The invention of the ____ programming language was brought upon by the military.

FORTRAN is affiliated with engineering applications.

In a functional programming language, the only functions that the programmer can use are the ones defined as part of the language.