MCQ Bank
The first high level language was____________
- A) Plankalkül
- B) SNOBOL
- C) FORTRAN
- D) Ada
Initial version of SONOBOL only supported __________ and strings.
- A) Digits
- B) Real Numbers
- C) Exponential Numbers
- D) Integers
Which of the following statement is best suited for C programming language?
- A) Introduced the notion of class
- B) With powerful set of operators but poor type checking
- C) First language to provide exception handling
- D) String manipulation language
Which of following is NOT considered as legal variable name in SNOBOL.
- A) myvar
- B) my.var
- C) _myvar
- D) my_var
The length of variable name supported by COBOL was _________ characters.
- A) 55
- B) 20
- C) 40
- D) 30
The language that introduced concurrency through tasking model was:
- A) ADA
- B) SNOBOL
- C) PL/1
- D) SIMULA
The block structure feature of ALGOL60 has ______ scope.
- A) Local
- B) Global
- C) No
- D) Universal
_______ was the first language that gave unit level concurrency.
- A) SNOBOL
- B) PL1
- C) BASIC
- D) PROLOG
_________was the first machine independent language.
- A) ALGOL
- B) FORTRAN
- C) SNOBOL
- D) LISP
In SNOBOL4, the __________ is accomplished through the INPUT and OUTPUT statements.
- A) Restart
- B) I/O
- C) Matching
- D) Assignment
Table in SNOBOL can be used as _________.
- A) Stacks
- B) Arrays
- C) Pointers
- D) Queues
FORTRAN 2 came after one year of FORTRAN 1 in ___________ with independent compilation and some bug fixes.
- A) 1956
- B) 1957
- C) 1958
- D) 1959
PROLOG represents _______________ paradigm.
- A) Algorithmic
- B) Functional
- C) Declarative
- D) Formal
__________ statement is used in conjunction with the pattern matching statement in SNOBOL4.
- A) Replacement
- B) Goto
- C) Concatenation
- D) Continue
In SNOBOL, _______ operator has highest precedence.
- A) Exponentiation
- B) Division
- C) Unary
- D) Multiplication
________ programming language is known as “Write-Only” language.
- A) APL
- B) FORTRAN
- C) BASIC
- D) PL/1
A space is used as a(n) _____ for concatenation in SNOBOL.
- A) Variable
- B) String
- C) Data Type
- D) Operator
COBOL was designed in __________ to support business-oriented computation which required fixed point arithmetic.
- A) 1980
- B) 1950
- C) 1960
- D) 1970
Which of the following was an illegal number in the initial version of SNOBOL?
- A) -36
- B) 4.5
- C) 0012
- D) +0
LISP stands for List ___________ Language.
- A) Programming
- B) Professional
- C) Processing
- D) Procedure