Programming languages
- 2. What is a Programming Languages • A programming language is a set of rules that provides a way of telling a computer what operations to perform A programming language is a tool for developing executable models for a class of problem domains.
- 3. Levels of Programming Languages High-level program class Triangle { class Triangle { ... ... float surface() float surface() return b*h/2; return b*h/2; } } Executable Machine code 0001001001000101 0001001001000101 0010010011101100 0010010011101100 10101101001... 10101101001... Low-level program LOAD r1,b LOAD r1,b LOAD r2,h LOAD r2,h MUL r1,r2 MUL r1,r2 DIV r1,#2 DIV r1,#2 RET RET
- 4. The principal paradigms • • • • Imperative Programming (C) Object-Oriented Programming (C++) Logic/Declarative Programming (Prolog) Functional/Applicative Programming (Lisp)
- 5. High-level Languages • FORTRAN – FORmula TRANslation. – Developed at IBM in the mid-1950s. – Designed for scientific and mathematical applications by scientists and engineers.
- 6. High-level Languages • COBOL – COmmon Business Oriented Language. – Developed in 1959. – Designed to be common to many different computers. – Typically used for business applications.
- 7. High-level Languages • BASIC – Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. – Developed at Dartmouth College in mid 1960s. – Developed as a simple language for students to write programs with which they could interact through terminals.
- 8. High-level Languages •C – Developed by Bell Laboratories in the early 1970s. – Provides control and efficiency of assembly language while having third generation language features. – Often used for system programs. – UNIX is written in C.
- 9. High-level Languages • C++ – It is C language with additional features. – Widely used for developing system and application software. – Graphical user interfaces can be developed easily with visual programming tools.
- 10. High-level Languages • JAVA – An object-oriented language similar to C++ that eliminates lots of C++’s problematic features – Allows a web page developer to create programs for applications, called applets that can be used through a browser. – Objective of JAVA developers is that it be machine, platform and operating system independent.
- 11. Markup Languages • HTML – HyperText Markup Language. – Used on the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW). – Web page developer puts brief codes called tags in the page to indicate how the page should be formatted.
- 12. High-level Languages • XML – Extensible Markup Language. – A language for defining other languages.
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