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Computer Programming Articles
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What is the difference between Imperative languages and Functional languages in compiler design?
Imperative LanguagesImperative languages are those which facilitate the computation by mean of state changes. By a state, it means the condition of a computer’s random access memory (RAM) or storage. It is helpful to think of computer memory as a sequence of snapshots, each one capturing the values in all memory cells at a particular time. Each snapshot records a state.When a program is entered, associated data exists in a certain condition, say an unsorted list off-line. It is the programmer’s job to specify a sequence of changes to the store that will produce the desired final state, perhaps a ...
Read MoreWhat is the difference between Procedural and Non-Procedural Languages in compiler design?
Procedural LanguagesProcedural languages are command-driven or statement-oriented languages. A program includes a sequence of statements, and the implementation of each statement generates the interpreter to modify the value of one or more areas in its memory that enters a new state.The format of procedural languages arestatement1;statement2;C, Pascal, FORTRAN, and equivalent languages are procedural languages. Each statement in the language communicates the computer to do something. A program in a procedural language is a list of instructions. For very small programs, no other arranging principle is required. Such language includes a sequence of procedures that execute when called. Each procedure includes ...
Read MoreWhat is Storage Management?
The compiler demands a block of memory for the operating system. The compiler uses this block of memory to implement the compiled program. This block of memory is known as storage management. A compiler should execute is to designate the resources of the target machine to define the data objects that are being manipulated by the source code.There are three basic storage management phases are as follows −Initial allocation − Initially each piece of storage is either free or in use. If free, it is available for dynamic allocation as the execution proceeds. A storage management system needed several methods ...
Read MoreWhat is the difference between Sequence control and data control?
Sequence ControlSequence control defines the line-by-line implementation by which statements are implemented sequentially, in the equivalent order in which they occur in the program. It can move out a sequence of read or write operations, arithmetic operations, or assignments to variables. A sequence control structure can be either implicit or explicit.Implicit Sequence Control − Implicit sequence control structures are those represented by the language. Implicit sequence control is decided by the sequence of the statements in the source code or by the built-in implementation model. The implicit sequence control structure tends to be in consequence except that transformed by the ...
Read MoreWhat is the difference between Subprograms and Coroutines?
SubprogramsA subprogram is defined as a set of statements that can be reused at multiple places in a program when convenient. This reuse results in multiple types of savings, from memory space to coding time. Such reuse is also an abstraction, for the analysis of subprograms computations are restored in a program by a statement that calls the subprogram.Features of SubprogramsThe features of subprograms are as follows −A subprogram has a single entry point.The caller is suspended during the implementation of the called subprogram.Control continually returns to the caller when the called subprogram’s execution eliminates.Advantages of subprogramsThere are the following ...
Read MoreWhat are Subprograms?
A subprogram is defined as a set of statements that can be reused at multiple places in a program when convenient. This reuse results in multiple types of savings, from memory space to coding time. Such reuse is also an abstraction, for the analysis of subprograms computations are restored in a program by a statement that calls the subprogram.Features of SubprogramsThe features of subprograms are as follows −A subprogram has a single entry point.The caller is suspended during the implementation of the called subprogram.Control repeatedly returns to the caller when the called subprogram’s execution eliminates.Types of SubprogramsThere are two types ...
Read MoreWhat are the operations on sequential files in compiler design?
The major operations on sequential files are as follows −Creating a file − The primary creation of a file is also defined as the loading of the file. In some implementations, space is first designated to the file, thus the data are loaded into that Skelton.Opening a file − Before a program can access a file for input or output, that file must be opened. The open operation is given the name of a file and the access mode (read or write). In Pascal, the procedure reset opens a file in read mode and the procedure rewrite opens a file ...
Read MoreWhat are the elements that combine to obscure the definitions of programming language operations?
The set of operations defined for a data type decided how data objects of that type can be manipulated. The operations can be primitive operations, which defines they are stated as an element of the language definition or they can be programmer-defined operations, as an element of class definitions.An operation is a mathematical function, for a given input argument and it has a clear and simply persistent result. Each operation has a domain (the set of possible results that it can create). The action of the operation represents the results created for any given set of arguments.The elements that combine ...
Read Morewhat is the hierarchical structure of programming languages in compiler design?
A programming language is an artificial language that can control the behaviour of a machine, specifically in computers. Programming language like natural languages is defined by syntactic and semantic rules which define their structure and meaning respectively. The hierarchical structure of programming languages is as follows −Programs − Computer programs are instructions for a computer. A computer needed programs to function, generally executing the program’s instructions in the main processor. The program has an executable form that the computer can use directly to execute the instructions. The equivalent program in its human-readable source program form, from which executable programs are ...
Read MoreWhat is Chomsky Hierarchy in compiler design?
The Chomsky hierarchy is a collection of various formal grammars. With the use of this formal grammar, it can generate some formal languages. They can be defined by multiple types of devices that can identify these languages such as finite state automata, pushdown automata, linear bounded automata, and Turing machines, respectively.Chomsky has suggested four different classes of phrase structure grammar as follows −Type-0 Grammar (Unrestricted Grammar) − Type-0 grammar is constructed with no restrictions on the replacement rule. A non-terminal must appear in the string on the left side. The language generated is called recursively enumerable language.Thus, type-0 grammar isAn ...
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