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I think a high level language is anything other than assembly language. That is from the perspective of someone that started with machine code and assembly lang
by jws 18y ago
I think a high level language is anything other than assembly language. That is from the perspective of someone that started with machine code and assembly language.
I don't think anyone ever set out to create a "low level" language. There was simply "coding the machine directly" and then "high level language".
Now it is tempting to draw a multidimensional line in the features of languages and partition it into "high" and "low", but I don't think that is where the term originates. It is a one hand clapping sort of adjective.
- aaronblohowiak 18y agoi think if there were some way to codify distance between language as typed by programmer and machine code executed, we'd have a handy function to determine how high-level a language is. further, aren't all lines multidimensional? ;P