Concept of programming languages chapter 1

Chapter 1 topics

• Reason for studying concept of programming language
• Programming Domains
• Language Evaluation Criteria
• Influence on Language design
• Language categories
• Language design trade-offs
• Implementation methods
• Programming envoirments

1. Reason for studying concept of programming language

• Increased ability to express ideas
• Improved background for chosing appropriate language
• Increased ability to learn new languages
• Better understanding of significant of implemention
• Better use of languages that are already known
• Overall advancement of computing

2. Programming Domains

2.1. Scientific application
Large number of floating point computation; use of arrays
- Fortran

2.2 Business application
Produce reports, use decimal numbers, and characters.
-COBOL

2.3. Artificial intelligence
Symbols rather than numbers manipulated
- lisp
2.4. System Programming
Need efficiency, because of continuous use
- C
2.5. Web software
Electic collection of languages markup, scripting, general-propose.