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1(a)
List the different classes of languages. What makes a programming language successful?
10 M
1(b)
What is binding time? Explain object lifetime in storage allocation mechanism.
10 M
2(a)
Explain categories of control flow mechanism.
8 M
2(b)
What is tail-recursive function? Explain with an example.
6 M
2(c)
Explain structured alternative to goto.
6 M
3(a)
What does it mean for a language to be strongly types? Statically typed? What prevents say C from being strongly typed?
8 M
3(b)
Discuss denotational, constructive and abstraction based views of types.
6 M
3(c)
What is garbage? Explain Mark and Sweep and stop and copy garbage collection.
6 M
4(a)
Explain in detail, the calling sequence of subroutine.
8 M
4(b)
What is an event in programming language?
6 M
4(c)
Explain parameter passing modes.
6 M
5(a)
List and explain three defining characteristics of OOP object oriented programming.
10 M
5(b)
Explain important of this parameter in OOP.
5 M
5(c)
Explain dynamic method binding.
5 M
6(a)
What are normal order evaluation, applicative evaluation and lazy evaluation? With an example.
9 M
6(b)
Explain characteristics of functional program.
5 M
6(c)
Describe three ways in which prolog programs can depart from pure logic.
6 M
7(a)
Explain motivation of concurrency. Give the contrast between concurrency and parallelism. Explain the implementation levels at which parallelism appears.
10 M
7(b)
What is a race condition? What is synchronization?
4 M
7(c)
Describe different mechanism to create new threads.
6 M
8(a)
Define virtual machine. Explain Jvm in brief (Java Virtual Machine).
10 M
8(b)
What is a JIT compiler? (JUST in TIME).
4 M
8(c)
Give the difference between JVM and CLI (Common Language Infrastructure).
6 M
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