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There are 100 marks for the entire paper and the time limit is 3 hours. The paper offers a lot of choice to the candidates as they have to answer 5 questions from a total of 8. All questions are descriptive and carry equal marks. All questions have sub-parts and offer a good opportunity for scoring high marks. Some of the important questions are explain the relationship between binding time and language implementation, differentiate between type checking and type conversation by citing suitable examples, discuss the major components of a programming language and compare the relative pros and cons of the various common programming languages, what do you understand by programmer defined data types and how they have changed the way in which programming is conducted, differentiate between fixed size and variable size data structures along with their respective application areas and merits. Short notes on important topics such as recursion, explicit sequence control, run time errors and software simulator are common.