Components of program
The components of a program are:
Comment entry: An entry following the symbols
It indicates a comment entry, and is used to specify a comment. It increases readability and clarity of a program for documentation purposes.
Program name: PROGRAM_ONE indicates name of the program.
Delimiters: { and } indicate beginning and end markers of the program. It is also required for statement blocks (set pf sentences which are closely related and form part of a construct).
Sentences: Each line of a program is a sentence.
Sentence terminator: Each sentence is to be terminated with a ; (semi-colon ) which is called the sentence terminator.
Keywords: Sentences can contain certain words, which are used for specific purposes. These words are called keywords/ for example, to show a message, the keyword is display. Keywords appearing in all the examples in this courseware are in lowercase and have been italicized.
The program sequence displays a name:
DISPLAY_NAME
{
display 'My name is:';
display 'aathishankaran';
}