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B.E. 4th Semester (CSE) Examination, December-2006

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES Paper-CSE-204-E
Time allowed: 3 hours Maximum marks: ]00

Note: Attempt any five questions.

1. (a) What is the use of studying a no. of programming
languages '1 Briefly explain. 10
(b) What are advantages and disadvantages of a language
supporting type equivalen~e as 10
(i) name equivalence, (ii) structural equivalence.
2. (a) If a reference parameter behaves like a global variable,
what advantages are there in passing by reference instead of using global variables ? 10
(b) What are the features that should be there in an object oriented language ? 10
3. (a) What do you mean by sequential file '1 What are. the operations which can be
performed in sequential fIles ? 10
(b) What is difference b/w structured data object and data type? What are major attributes
for specifying data structures ? 10

4. Discuss briefly the following:

(i) Recursive subprogram call and its implementation 10
(ii) Encapsulation and information hiding .. 10

5. (a) Write a few ron time elements which require storage. 10

(b) Discuss stack based storage management in detail. 10
6. (a) What do you mean by scope of a variable ? Discuss static and dynamic scope. 15
(b) What do you mean by epilogue and prologue '1 Briefly explain. 5

7. (a) Differentiate between procedural and non-procedural language. 10

(b) Compare the features of C.and C++ language. 10

8. Write short notes on :

(a) Exception and exception handlers 7
(b) Pointer data type 7
(c ) Explicit sequence control 6

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