Section 9.1
Review Questions
The history of assembler programs
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Fill in the blanks with some of the terms below. No term is used more
than once. Not all terms are used.
TERMS: assembler source file object file
compiler assembly language FORTRAN
opcode IBM 360 Cpt. Grace Hopper
mnemonic linker C
____________________ The first high-level programming language
____________________ "memory helping"
____________________ The short names of the machine instructions
____________________ The output of the assembler program
____________________ The world's first family of compatible computers
____________________ A program to translate high level code into machine code
____________________ The file that people write; the original program
____________________ A program to create machine language files
____________________ The person who worked on one of the first translators
answer...
___FORTRAN__________ The first high-level programming language
___mnemonic_________ "memory helping"
___opcode___________ The short names of the machine instructions
___object file______ The output of the assembler program
___IBM 360__________ The world's first family of compatible computers
___compiler_________ A program to translate high level code into machine code
___source file______ The file that people write; the original program
___assembler________ A program to create machine language files
__Cpt. Grace Hopper_ The person who worked on one of the first translators
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Know your dates! Fill in the blanks below with the year in which the
breakthrough occurred. The lines are in order from oldest to newest.
___________ Cpt. Hopper described the first compiler
___________ FORTRAN compiler written and released
___________ IBM 360 series introduced
___________ Java was born
answer...
___1952____ Cpt. Hopper described the first compiler
___1957____ FORTRAN compiler written and released
___1965____ IBM 360 series introduced
___1989____ Java was born