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Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:
> Any language higher than assembly language is a high level language,
> that's the definition, it's not hard.

Well, that's one way to look at it, that was probably more convincing in
the 1970s than now.

Here, the question got shut down basically because it doesn't have a
unique answer:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/267583/why-is-c-still-in-the-category-of-high-level-language

Other web search results say similar things.  So I'm going to keep
considering it subjective instead of going by your say-so.  Anyway it's
a terminological quibble not worth getting hung up on.

You've probably seen this (from 1994), but if not, it might be more
relevant to the "crossing the chasm" question:

  http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/HaskellVsAda-NSWC.pdf

See particularly the tables on pages 9 and 12.