Exam 9: The Tower of Babel

COBOL is far more adept at handling keyboard input than file input.

____ programs consist of facts and rules.

A side effect occurs when a function, in the course of acting on its argument values to produce a result value, also changes other values that it should not alter.

____ programs consist of facts and rules.

A(n) ____ is a program used to interact with an I/O device.

The ____ symbol is used to refer to the memory address where the value of a variable is stored in C.

____ was designed to serve business needs such as managing inventories and payrolls.

ADA is strictly used for systems that do not require tremendous amounts of reliability.

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

A(n) ____ is a model or mental framework for representing or thinking about something.

Which of the following is a functional programming language?

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

In a functional programming language, functions that are defined as part of the language are called ____ functions.

A program written in a procedural language consists of sequences of statements that manipulate data items.

When using the "just in time" compiler on Microsoft intermediate language code, the executable file remains even after program execution.

COBOL programs are highly portable across many different COBOL compilers.

FORTRAN is affiliated with engineering applications.

A(n) ____ is a program used to interact with an I/O device.

The inability to have all computer programs written in the same programming language is mostly because no single programming language is capable of doing every task.

____ is the language used to frame database queries.