Principles of Programming Languages

College of Computing and Informatics
Assignment 2
[Total Mark for this Assignment is 10]
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Question One
Pg. 01
Learning
Outcome(s):
Question One
Describe the
Define static, fixed stack-dynamic, stack-dynamic, fixed heap-dynamic, and
heap-dynamic arrays. What are the advantages of each?
syntactic structure
of a program and
the semantics of a
programming
language.
2.5 Marks
Question Two
Pg. 02
Learning
Outcome(s):
Describe the
syntactic structure
of a program and
the semantics of a
programming
language.
Question Two
2.5 Marks
What is the purpose of a List? Give example of a List in any language. How is
it created and used?
Question Three
Pg. 03
Learning
Outcome(s):
Question Three
Discuss operator precedence and operator associativity.
Discuss the
fundamental
concepts in
programming
languages.
2.5 Marks
Question Four
Pg. 04
Learning
Outcome(s):
Ability to define
which programs
are well-typed
and which are
not.
Question Four
Explain short circuit evaluation in programming with example.
2.5 Marks