Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad 2005-1st Sem B.E Computer Science PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES III B.Techester Supplementary s, set 3 - Question Paper

Code No: RR31050 Set No.3
III B.Tech. I Semester Supplementary Examinations, May 2005
PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
( Common to Computer Science & Engineering and Computer Science &
Systems Engineering)
Time: three hours
ans any 5 ques.
All ques. carry equal marks
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Max Marks: 80
1. elaborate the reasons for studying the concepts of programming languages.
2. What is BNF notation. discuss it with examples.
3. describe ordinal data kind. discuss various ordinal data kinds.
4. (a) discuss various options of assignment statement.
(b) What is short circuit valuation.
5. (a) discuss how subprogram names are passed as parameters?
(b) discuss how subprogram is overloaded? provide examples.
6. Briefly define cooperation synchronization and competition synchronization in
semaphores.
7. (a) Write prolog program to calculate the sum of numbers using arrays.
(b) discuss exception handling in java.
8. (a) Write a LISP function that calculates sum of numbers using a vector.
(b) explain briefly about LISP primitive data kinds.

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