Programming Languages - Prof. Giselle

Why did we move from punch cards to programming languages?

  • Hard to fix errors.

  • Organizing the program is difficult.

What does that tell you about the purpose of programming languages?

  • Programming languages makes it easy to write programs.

There are hundreds of different programming languages out there. Why do you think we need so many?

  • Various problems and tasks requires different tools and methods to solve and address. It depend on whether programming languages are efficient enough for the problem faced.

What are some drawbacks of a programming language you use? How would you like it to be different? Think of specific examples.

  • Python: to me using python harder than Java & C#, wherein Java variables are declared properly with its datatype.

  • I would prefer including datatypes when declaring variables.

If you were going to create a new programming language, how would you start? What do you need to define?

  • I would start by trying to make as simple as possible where there would be many ways to write simple line of code (pretty hard but that's what I would prefer).

  • I would probably need to define the commands and syntax.