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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD II B.TECH II SEM SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATIONS FEBRUARY - 2010 PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING) Time: 3hours Max.Marks:80 Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks --1.a) Why is Readability important to Writability? b) Which produces faster program execution, a compiler or pure interpreter? 2. Define Axiomatic semantics. Explain it in context with Assignment statement, Sequence statements and Selection statements. [16] 3.a) Compare the tombstones and locks & keys methods of avoiding dangling pointers, from the point of view of safety & implementation cost. b) Define name type compatibility and structure type compatibility. What are the relative merits of these two? [8+8] 4.a) Explain in detail Relational expressions, Boolean expressions and Short circuit Evaluation. b) What are guarded commands? Explain. [8+8] 5.a) Explain Type checking techniques in parameter passing. b) Write about Co routines. [8+8] 6.a) Explain parameterized Abstract Data Types. b) Explain how message passing is implemented in Ada. [8+8] [8+8] [8+8]

7.a) Explain basic concepts and design issues of Exception handling. b) Discuss how Exception handlers are helpful in C++ Exception handling. 8.a) Explain the main features of Imperative Languages. b) Write a LISP function Fib(n) that computes n Fibonacci number. ********

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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD II B.TECH II SEM SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATIONS FEBRUARY - 2010 PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING) Time: 3hours Max.Marks:80 Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks --1.a) What are the factors influencing Readability of a Language? Explain. b) Briefly discuss a few of the areas of computer applications and their associated Languages. [8+8] 2. Define Attribute grammars. Give an Attribute grammar for simple assignment statements. How is the order of evaluation of attributes determined for the trees of your Attribute grammar? [16] 3.a) Explain in detail various design issues of Character string types. b) Explain pointers in C & C++. [8+8] 4.a) Write about Type conversions. b) Explain in detail counter controlled loops. [8+8]

5.a) Explain how Multidimensional arrays are passed as parameters. b) Define Shallow and Deep binding for referencing environment of subprograms that have been passed as parameters. [8+8] 6.a) What is a friend function? What are the advantages of it? b) Discuss about Binary Semaphores. [8+8] 7.a) Briefly explain Exception handling in Java with example. b) What are the applications of Logic Programming? [8+8] 8.a) Write a detail note on functions in ML. b) Give comparison of Functional and Imperative Languages. ******** [8+8]

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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD II B.TECH II SEM SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATIONS FEBRUARY - 2010 PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING) Time: 3hours Max.Marks:80 Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks --1.a) How can knowledge of programming language characteristics benefit the whole computing community? b) Explain the different aspects of the cost of a programming language. [8+8] 2.a) Describe the basic concepts of Denotational semantics. b) How do you express the associativity of operators in grammar? Explain with an example. [8+8] 3.a) Define Lifetime, Scope, Static Scope & Dynamic Scope. What are the general problems with Static Scoping? b) Discuss on implementation of pointer & reference types. [8+8] 4.a) Explain in detail Selection statements and its categories. b) What is short circuit evaluation? What are its advantages? [8+8]

5. What are the different models of parameter passing methods? How are they implemented? Give example for each. [16] 6.a) What are the language design requirements for a language that supports Abstract data types? b) Write about Semaphores, Monitors & Message passing. [8+8] 7.a) Explain Exception handling in Ada. b) Explain how backtracking works in Prolog. 8.a) Explain about LISP Interpreter. b) Explain some of the important functions of LISP. ******** [8+8] [8+8]

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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD II B.TECH II SEM SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATIONS FEBRUARY - 2010 PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING) Time: 3hours Max.Marks:80 Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks --1.a) What does it mean for a program to be reliable? Explain. b) Explain how the Von Neumann architecture affected the design of programming language. [8+8] 2.a) What is Ambiguity? How can it be removed, show with an example. b) Explain with an example how the weakest precondition for a logical pretest loop is derived. [8+8] 3.a) Define static, stack dynamic, explicit heap dynamic & implicit heap dynamic variables. What are the advantages & disadvantages of these? [8+8] 4. Explain Iterative statements and its categories. [16] [8+8]

5.a) Discuss on Generic Subprograms in Ada and C++. b) In what ways Coroutines different from conventional Subprograms.

6.a) Briefly explain the sub-program level concurrency. b) Define Monitor. Explain how cooperation synchronization and competition synchronization are implemented using monitors. [8+8] 7.a) Explain Exception handling in Ada b) Discuss about basic elements of Prolog. Give examples. 8.a) What are the applications of Functional Languages? b) Explain how Haskell differs from ML. [8+8] ******** [8+8]