Exam 2: Language Design Criteria

The ease with which a complex process or structure can be expressed in a programming language is called its regularity.

C++ does not have a formal language definition.

When no type errors are caught during execution,we can infer that they do not exist.

Which of the following is most closely related to reliability?

Python is easy for nonprogrammers to learn and use because ____.

The quality of a language that allows a programmer to express a computation clearly,correctly,concisely,and quickly is called _____.

Python was designed to bridge the gap between a systems language like C and a shell language like Perl.

A programming language's expressiveness ____.

The fact that Pascal does not allow functions and procedures to be assigned to variables indicates a lack of ____ in the language.

Irregularities in a language may be the result of maintaining backward compatibility with a prior version of the language.

Because C++ requires a semicolon after a class definition but not after a function definition,C++ is said to lack ____.

C++ was designed to be a multiparadigm language that would not enforce any one style of programming.

Java is considered to be a semantically safe language.

A language is said to have the property of ____ if it has a design in which similar things look similar,and different things look different.

The real benefit of deferring type checking until runtime is ____.

Java demonstrates a lack of orthogonality in its different handling of primitive data types and object data types.

A ____ specifies the syntax of a piece of code that expands to other standard code.

The presence of explicit data types in variable declarations in a language allows for more concise code.

C++ ____.

A language that allows the user to add features to it is said to have the property of ____.