definition of a highlevel language?
jws: 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.