Chapter 9 Using programming languages on zOS.ppt

Chapter 9: Using programming languages on z/OS Chapter objectives Be able to: List several common programming languages for the mainframe Explain the differences between a compiled language and an interpreted language Create a simple CLIST or REXX program Choose an appropriate data file organization for an online application Compare the advantages of a high level language to those of Assembler language Explain the relationship between a data set name, a DD name, and the file name within a program Explain how the use of z/OS Language Environment affects the decisions made by the application designer Key terms in this chapter assembler binder compiler debugging dynamic link library generation I/O input/output interpreter load modules pre-processor programming language variable Overview of programming languages A programming language is the way that a programmer instructs a computer to perform functions Computers only understand machine language Machine language is in binary form and, thus, very difficult to write Humans write programs in a programming language, which is converted into machine language for the computer to process There are many programming languages that have evolved from machine language Classification of programming languages 1st generation Machine language specific to hardware and software 2nd generation Assembler language Specific to hardware Must be assembled Symbolic machine instructions plus data structures corresponding to machine storage and registers Classification of programming languages continued 3rd generation Procedural languages, known as high-level languages HLL Example: COBOL Must be translated compiled before execution Usually portable to an extent across hardware and software platforms with a recompile 4th generation – 4GL Non-procedural languages Report generators Query languages Examples: RPG, CSP, QMF, SQL Classification of programming languages continued Visual programming l