Types of Values and Type Systems in Programming

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Which of the following PLs supports booleans, characters, enumerands, integers, real numbers, records, arrays, discriminated records, and objects (tagged records)?

Ada

In programming languages, what is an expression of type T if E is guaranteed to yield a value of type T?

Type system

Which programming language supports booleans, integers, real numbers, arrays, and objects?

Java

Roughly speaking, what is a type in programming languages?

A set of values

What is a type in programming languages?

A set of values equipped with one or more operations

What does the cardinality of a type represent?

The number of values of the type

In programming languages, what is a built-in primitive type?

A type with predefined values and operations

Which statement is true about defining primitive types in Ada and C?

New numeric and enumeration types can be defined in Ada and C

What are composite types in programming languages?

Types whose values are composed from simpler values

Which of the following programming languages supports booleans, characters, integers, real numbers, tuples, disjoint unions, lists, and recursive types?

Haskell

In programming languages, which operation operates uniformly over the values false and true?

and

What is the cardinality of a type in programming languages?

The set of values that the type can represent

Which of the following is considered a primitive type in programming languages?

Characters

What is an expression of type T if E is guaranteed to yield a value of type T?

A boolean operation

What is the cardinality of the type 'Population' in Ada, as declared in this text "type Population is range 0 .. 1e10;"?

10000000001

How are values grouped in a Cartesian product?

Using multiplication

What represents the set of all pairs (x, y) such that x is chosen from set S and y is chosen from set T?

{ (x, y) | x  S; y  T }

What types of operations can be applied uniformly to all the values of a type?

One or more operations

What programming languages allow the definition of new primitive types?

Only Ada and C allow this

This quiz covers the topic of types of values in programming, including primitive, composite, and recursive types. It also delves into type systems such as static vs dynamic typing and type completeness, along with expressions and implementation notes.

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