CS 280 - Concepts of Programming Languages
Quiz 1
1. The language used for artificial intelligence is:
a) Fortran
b) LISP (correct)
c) COBOL
d) Pascal
2. Use COBOL for system programming
a) True
b) False (correct)
3. Language evaluation criteria includes the following except
a) No answer is correct (correct)
b) Readability
c) Writability
d) Reliability
4. Orthogonality is related to readability
a) True (correct)
b) False
5. The feature that leads to increased execution costs is:
a) Aliasing
b) Exception handling
c) Type checking
d) Index checking (correct)
6. Syntax does not need meaningful keywords
a) True
b) False (correct)
7. What could cause high costs?
a) cost of the language implementation system
b) cost of poor reliability (correct)
c) cost of training programmers to use the language
d) cost of writing programs in the language
