Exam 10: The Tower of Babel

Discuss dynamic webpages and PHP.

Although C++ supports the basic arithmeticoperations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division by providingsimple operators (+, −, *, /) to do these tasks, there is no operator forexponentiation-that is, raising a value to a power.

The majority of business transactions, billions of them per day, are still done on ____________________ code that has now been updated and is likely to continue to run for the foreseeable future.

One of the newest languages, ____, was designed for building apps on the iOSand OS X operating systems.

____is the most widely used language for writing system software becauseit combines the power of a high-level language with the ability to circumventthat level of abstraction and work at the assembly-language-like level.

C# is the successor to C++ and is the same basic language.

The use of parallelism always reduces processing time because subtasks are being executed concurrently.

Procedural languages differ in the details of assigning a new value to a variable, in the mechanisms the language provides for directing the flow of control through conditional and looping statements, and in the statement forms that control input and output.

____ was originally designed for systems programming, in particular for writing the operating system UNIX.

Writing all computer programs in the same programming language would be more efficient because all languages meet essentially the same needs.

Old computer code that is still in use is known as ____.

C++ is in fact a "subset" of C, meaning that all of the C++ language is part of C.

At some point, an increase in the number of ____________________ can become more of a hindrance than a help, due to the extra data communication required.

____ is the FORTRAN implementation of "input."

Early versions of FORTRAN allowed the use of mathematical symbols such as < to compare two quantities.

Early versions of FORTRAN included a while loop mechanism._________________________

The task of finding the largest number in a list can be solved in a MIMD parallel fashion using the ____ model.

Using a single processor, finding the largest of N numbers takes ____ time.

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

Today ____ is still strong in the transportation industry (aircraft, helicopters, subway systems, European high-speed train control systems) and in safety monitoring systems at nuclear reactors, as well as in financial and communication systems.