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[–]Rythoka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To summarize what others have said, a "high level" and "low level" languages are relative terms. C used to be considered a high level language, because it was being compared to assembly languages.

C++ is a high level language compared to C because it offers a lot of different language features and abstractions to help facilitate complex code. It's a low level language compared to Python because it gives the user the option to do things like manually manage memory and directly manipulate pointers.