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Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com> writes:
> I and anyone with a brain knows, you obviously don’t. Even C is a high
> level language, it’s at the bottom of the pile though,

I don't think you get to decide unilaterally whether something is an
HLL, and expect others to bow before your wisdom.  As far as I can tell,
it's a somewhat subjective term.  I would not call C an HLL, but that's
just me.  I wouldn't call the others you mentioned HLL's either, but
that's more idiosyncratic.

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_programming_language :

    The terms high-level and low-level are inherently relative. Some decades
    ago, the C language, and similar languages, were most often considered
    "high-level", as it supported concepts such as expression evaluation,
    parameterised recursive functions, and data types and structures, while
    assembly language was considered "low-level". Today, many programmers
    might refer to C as low-level, as it lacks a large runtime-system (no
    garbage collection, etc.), basically supports only scalar operations,
    and provides direct memory addressing. It, therefore, readily blends
    with assembly language and the machine level of CPUs and
    microcontrollers.

> GC doesn’t even come into it.

Well, what *does* come into it, in your conception?