>So I'm quite sure that C is a high level language. Except it isn't. At least not anymore. This statement was true a few decades back, when C was the highest l

>So I'm quite sure that C is a high level language. Except it isn't. At least not anymore. This statement was true a few decades back, when C was the highest level available. Today, C is barely a level above Assembly on the abstraction scale of programming languages. Mind you, I'm not saying that's bad (and most other people don't mean it as an insult, either). C is a powerful language that will probably be needed by generations to come. But calling it "high level" today is being stuck in the 1970s.