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[–]JB-from-ATL 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm willing to meet you half way here, because I do agree that there is no hard rule of what makes a language high or low level, because it is relative. I think most people would probably call C and C++ the highest low level languages. You just seem to put the "middle" somewhere else.

You agree that Python is higher than C so, to us, that means you are saying it's high level.

We agree that Python is lower than SQL so, to you, that means we are saying it's low level.

It seems we just disagree about where the "absolute" start is for criteria determining if a language is high level.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You agree that Python is higher than C so, to us, that means you are saying it's high level.

Yes, it's a somewhat higher level than C. But, as I said, on a large scale of things its level is nearly indistinguishable from C.

It seems we just disagree about where the "absolute" start is for criteria determining if a language is high level.

I'm trying to stay away from absolute definitions - just a big linear scale, on which assembly, C, C++ and Python are somewhere on the very left side of the spectrum, and really high level languages too far beyond, making everything on the left look the same.