Programming Language Project

Question Set #3

Due: November 9, 2004 at start of class

Answers MUST be keyed in before printing

Name ________________________ Programming Language ___________

Note: For each of these question sets, you should look first in the reports you were given. You should then check the information on the Web or in a book. If the information is not in the report, you should say so and then find it on the Web or in a book.

The first 4 questions are about comments in your language. ? In some languages comments were required to start at column 1 and nothing else could be on the line; in other languages comments started midway through the line and no code could follow them on the same line; in some languages comments could be embedded in the code; In some languages single comments could extend over several lines.

1. Show a typical comment in your language

2. Where does a comment begin, end

3. Where can it be placed?

4. Can a single comment extend over more than one line?

5. Is your language case sensitive?

6. Does your language allow and/or require type declarations?

7. What are the scalar data types, if any, in your language?

8. What are the structured data types, if any, in your language?

9. Does your language have any other data types (i.e. pointers???)

10. How are strings handled in your language? (look at our text for a description of the possible choices before answering this question).