Chapter 3 (Paradigm) Flashcards
1
Q
What is a procedural abstraction?
A
Procedural abstraction allows the programmer to be concerned mainly with a function interface, ignoring the details of how it is computed.
2
Q
What is a copy semantics?
A
Expression is evaluated to a value, which is copied to the target; used by imperative languages.
3
Q
What is a reference semantics?
A
Expression is evaluated to an object, whose pointer is copied to the target, used by oo languages.
4
Q
What is C?
A
Unix operating system, on the DEC PDP-11, by Dennis Ritchie.
5
Q
Some characteristics of C?
A
Low level language
Macro facility
Conditional compilation
Lacks: iterator, generic, exception handling.
