COSC 341  FINAL EXAM TOPICS

Haskell
Erlang
Python
C pointers

What is translation? (compiler, interpreter)

BNF, specifying syntax

Expression grammars and expression trees

Variables
  Type Representation:  characters, integers, floating point
      Static type versus dynamic type
  Scope: dynamic versus static (lexical)
  Run-time stack for local variables, parameters
  Lifetime (especially in contrast to scope)
  Parameter passing protocols
    by value
    by value-result
    by name
    by reference
    
  
The following sections in the Scott text are especially relevant:
chpt 1: 1.1, 1.4, 1.6.1
chpt 2: 2.1, 2.3.1
chpt 3: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.6
chpt 7: 7.1.1, 7.4 (only parts dealing with slices and row-major versus column-major order)
        7.7.1
chpt 8: 8.1, 8.3.1, 8.3.2