Programming

Question 1

Types of programming languages

Answer 1

• General purpose
• Markup
• Specialised

Question 2

Categories of programming languages

Answer 2

Compiled, part-compiled, interpreted, JIT

Question 3

Paradigms of programming languages

Answer 3

Object-oriented, functional, procedural

Question 4

What is C?

Answer 4

• General purpose/Compiled/Procedural
• Widely used
• Low-level, fast but difficult
• Uses a lot of storage

Question 5

What is Perl?

Answer 5

• General purpose/Interpreted (JIT)/Procedural
• Borrows from C, BASH, AWK, sed
• Popular for CGI scripting

Question 6

What is Python?

Answer 6

• General purpose/JIT/Part-compiled/Object-oriented
• Concise syntax