Assignment - 2
Due Date: 1 September 2010
This assignment is for 25 (twenty five) marks
- (9 Marks) Scan the web and find information about
the history, origins
and important features of the C language. In particular, answer
the following questions:
- What is the motivation for creating the C language?
- What features of C are related to operating system and
system programming development?
- Why did or which features made C a very popular
language?
- (4 Marks) Define the four binding times discussed in class.
Give two examples each from C language (they
should be different from the ones given in the class).
- (12 Marks) Scan the web and list down the essential
features of programming languages under the following categories:
- Procedural languages
- Functional languages
- Scripting languages
- GUI langauges