C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
I don&#x27;t think it was ever claimed that C was a low level language. In fact I have always heard it as the canonical reference for an example of a high level language. I will admit that in this day and age C feels like a low level language.<p>Lower level is something that maps more directly to machine operation (assembly, maybe forth).<p>Higher level is something that has it&#x27;s own semantics of operation and need to be converted to into the machine operation, the more conversion the higher the level.