C is one of first high level languages. If someone is not educated well, it is his problem. It's possible to do low-level stuff in C, e.g. by inline assembler,

C is one of first high level languages. If someone is not educated well, it is his problem. It's possible to do low-level stuff in C, e.g. by inline assembler, but it does not makes C low level. Low level languages lacks abstractions, i.e. they tied to machine, while high level languages are not.