Design issues of subprogram

DESIGN ISSUES OF SUBPROGRAM

Subprogram: A subprogram means a function or procedure.

Some of the design issues of subprogram are:

• Are local variables static or dynamic?
• Can subprogram definitions appear in other subprogram definitions?
• What parameter-passing method or methods are used?
• Are the types of the actual parameters checked against the types of the formal parameters?
• If subprograms can be passed as parameters and subprograms can be nested, 
• what is the referencing environment of a passed subprogram?
• Can subprograms be overloaded?
• Can subprograms be generic?
• If the language allows nested subprograms, are closures supported?

Some definitions to be know:

An overloaded subprogram is one that has the same name as another subprogram in the same referencing environment. 

A generic subprogram is one whose computation can be done on data of different types in different

calls. 

A closure is a nested subprogram and its referencing environment, which together allow the subprogram to be called from anywhere in a program.

Principles of Programming Languages:

EasyExamNotes.com covered following topics in these notes.

• Language Evaluation Criteria
• Influences on Language Design 
• Language Categories
• Programming Paradigms
• Compilation
• Virtual Machines 
• Programming Environments
• Issues in Language Translation
• Parse Tree 
• Pointer and Reference type
• Concept of Binding
• Type Checking
• Strong typing 
• Sequence control with Expression
• Exception Handling 
• Subprograms
• Fundamentals of sub-programs
• Scope and lifetime of variable
• Static and dynamic scope
• Design issues of subprogram and operations
• Local referencing environments
• Parameter passing methods
• Overloaded sub-programs
• Generic sub-programs 
• Design issues for functions 
• Co routines 
• Abstract Data types
• Abstraction and encapsulation
• Static and Stack-Based Storage management
• Garbage Collection
• OOP in C++
• OOP in Java 
• OOP in C# 
• OOP in PHP
• Concurrency
• Semaphores 
• Monitors
• Message passing
• Java threads 
• C# threads 
• Exception handling 
• Exceptions
• Exception Propagation 
• Exception handler in C++ 
• Exception handler in Java
• Introduction and overview of Logic programming
• Basic elements of Prolog
• Application of Logic programming
• Functional programming languages
• Introduction to 4GL 

Practicals:

• Memory Implementation of 2D Array. 
• Memory Implementation of 3D Array. 
• Implementation of pointers in C++. 
• Write a program in Java to implement exception handling.
• Write a program in C++ to implement call by value parameter passing Method.
• Write a program in C++ to implement call by reference parameter passing Method. 
• Write a program in Java to implement concurrent execution of a job using threads.
• Implement Inheritance in C#.
• Implement Encapsulation in C#.
• Implement static/compiletime Polymorphism in C#.
• Implement dynamic/runtime Polymorphism in C#.

Previous years solved papers:

• PPL|RGPV|May 2018 
• PPL|RGPV|June 2017 

A list of Video lectures

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References:

1. Sebesta,”Concept of programming Language”, Pearson Edu 
2. Louden, “Programming Languages: Principles & Practices” , Cengage Learning 
3. Tucker, “Programming Languages: Principles and paradigms “, Tata McGraw –Hill. 
4. E Horowitz, "Programming Languages", 2nd Edition, Addison Wesley