1. Programming Languages
Dr. Shahriar Bijani
Sep. 2014

2. Text Book
Kenneth C. Louden & Kenneth A. Lambert, Programming Languages: Principles and Practice, 3rd Edition, 2012.

3. Code of Conduct Plagiarism is not acceptable!
All assignments are strictly individual
Unless explicitly stated otherwise

4. Main Slide References
CS 152: Programming Language Paradigms, Dept. of Computer Science, San Jose State University, Spring 2014.
COMP313A: Programming Languages, Dept. of Computer Science, The University of Waikato,

5. Goals of the Course Program in languages from different “cultures”.
Learn new ideas and concepts.
Apply the new concepts to your “native” language.
C++, C#, Java, etc.
Become a better programmer!
Different programming cultures (paradigms).
Object-oriented
C++, C#, Objective C, Java, etc.
Functional
Lisp, Scheme, ML, Haskell, F#
Logic
Prolog

6. Goals of the Course How are programming languages designed?
Can we design a language?
What are the design criteria?
How can we specify the language’s syntax and semantics?
What about data types and control structures?
How are programming languages implemented?
Interpreters
Compilers

7. Why This Course? Increased capacity to express ideas.
The depth at which we can think is influenced by the expressive power of the language
Improved background for choosing appropriate languages.
Make better informed choices if you are familiar with other available languages, especially the particular features of those languages.

8. Why This Course? Increased capacity to learn new languages.
Understanding of the fundamental concepts of languages and learning a new language give you better understanding of your first language.
Better understanding language implementation.
Understand implementation issues  Understand why languages are designed the way they are  Ability to use a language more intelligently.
Increased ability to design new languages.
Advance the state of the art.
Better languages can crowd out poor languages.

9. A Historic Timeline
Programming Languages: Principles and Practice, 3rd ed. Kenneth Louden & Kenneth Lambert
(c) 2012 Course Technology. All rights reserved

10. Origins of Programming Languages
A programming language is often defined as “a notation for communicating to a computer what we want it to do”.
Before the mid 1940s, computer operators set switches to adjust the internal wiring of a computer to perform the requested tasks.
Programming languages allowed computer users to solve problems without having to reconfigure hardware.

11. Plugboard Control Panel
IBM 407 Accounting Machine (1949)

12. Programming a Plugboard
“Programming” was hand-wiring plugboards.
“Hmm, should I pass this parameter by value or by reference?”

13. Programming a Plugboard
Plugboard wiring diagram
It doesn’t look too complicated, does it?

14. Machine Language
John von Neumann proposed that computers should be permanently hardwired with a small set of general-purpose operations.
An operator could input a series of binary codes to organize the basic hardware operations to solve more specific problems.
Operators could flip switches to enter these codes, called machine language, into memory.
John von Neumann was a Hungarian and American pure and applied mathematician, physicist, inventor and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics, physics, economics, computing, and statistics.

15. Machine Language
Machine language programming was boring and error prone.

16. Assembly Language
Assembly language: a set of mnemonic symbols for instruction codes and memory locations.
Example: LD R1,R2
Assembler: a program that translates the symbolic assembly language code to binary machine code.
Loader: a program that loads the machine code into computer memory for execution.
Input devices:
Keypunch machine
Punched card reader

17. IBM 1401 Autocoder Programming
80/80 List
Read and print a deck of cards.
JOB 80/80 CARD LISTER *
ORG LOCATE AFTER THE PRINT AREA
START CS CLEAR STORAGE
CS CLEAR STORAGE
SW 1,201 SET WORD MARKS AT 1 AND 201
READ R READ A CARD INTO READ AREA
MCW 80,280 MOVE TO PRINT AREA
W PRINT IT
BLC DONE GO TO DONE IF LAST CARD READ
B READ ELSE GO READ ANOTHER CARD
DONE H DONE ALL DONE
END START
Main loop
MCW
Move characters to word mark
SJSU Dept. of Computer Science
Spring 2014: January 27
CS 152: Programming Language Paradigms © R. Mak

18. Assembly Language
Mnemonic symbols were an improvement over binary machine codes but still had shortcomings.
Lacks abstraction of conventional mathematical notation.
Each type of computer hardware architecture has its own machine language instruction set and requires its own dialect of assembly language.
Assembly languages first appeared in the 1950s and are still used today for low-level system tools or for hand-optimization.

19. Punched Cards
Data was stored in punched cards called “IBM cards” or “Hollerith cards”
Named after Herman Hollerith.
80 columns per card, one character per column.
Up to 12 punched holes per column.
Alphanumeric data, often grouped into fields. _

20. A Data Processing Job A typical “job”. Tanenbaum & Woodhull
Operating Systems: Design and Implementation
(c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved

21. Punched Cards Data processing was all about punched cards.
A compiler project!
3½ boxes of punched cards
Each box = 2000 cards, 10 lbs.

22. FORTRAN FORTRAN: FORmula TRANslation language
Developed by John Backus in the early 1950s.
Reflected the architecture of a particular type of machine.
Lacked the structured control statements and data structures of later high-level languages.
Popular with scientists and engineers for its support for algebraic notation and floating-point numbers.
The language has evolved and is still used today.
FORTRAN IV
FORTRAN 77
FORTRAN 90
FORTRAN 95
FORTRAN

23. FORTRAN DOUBLE PRECISION NUMBER, ROOT C DO 500 I = 1, 3
5 WRITE (6, 10)
10 FORMAT ('ENTER A NUMBER')
READ (5,100) NUMBER
100 FORMAT (F5.1)
IF (NUMBER .GE. 0.0) GO TO 175
WRITE (6, 150)
150 FORMAT ('*** THE NUMBER MUST NOT BE NEGATIVE.')
GOTO 5
175 ROOT = DSQRT(NUMBER)
WRITE (6,200) NUMBER, ROOT
200 FORMAT ('THE SQUARE ROOT OF ', F5.1, ' IS ', F15.10)
500 CONTINUE
PAUSE
STOP
END

24. Algol Algol: Algorithmic Language released in 1960
Provided a standard notation for computer scientists to publish algorithms in journals.
John Backus was a major contributor.
Structured control statements
Sequencing (begin-end blocks)
Loops (for loop)
Selection (if and if-else statements)
Different numeric types
Introduced the array structure
Supported procedures
Including recursive procedures

25. The Algol Family
A large number of high-level languages descended from Algol, including:
Pascal: language for teaching programming in the 1980s
Ada: for embedded applications of U.S. Dept. of Defense (DoD)
Algol control structures are present in today’s languages, including Java, C, C++, etc.