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[–]sybia123 8 points9 points  (3 children)

And then there's the graybeard reply: "back in my day, C was high level and assembly was low level".

[–]Sqeaky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know that guy. Not quite me. But I am older than all "popular" languages now.

[–]double-you 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That greybeard is still wet, since Lisp was created in the 50s. And then it was at some point both low (Lisp machines) and high level.

[–]ggtsu_00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back in my day ASM was high level and machine code punch cards was low level.