Which programming languages aren't considered high-level?

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Published on 2010-04-12T19:27:20Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 19:32 UTC
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In informatics theory I hear and read about high-level and low-level languages all time.

Yet I don't understand why this is still relevant as there aren't any (relevant) low-level languages except assembler in use today.

So you get:

Low-level

Assembler

Definitely not low-level

C
BASIC
FORTRAN
COBOL
...

High-level

C++
Ruby
Python
PHP
...

And if assembler is low-level, how could you put for example C into the same list. I mean: C is extremely high-level compared to assembler. Same even for COBOL, Fortran, etc.

So why does everybody keep mentioning high and low-level languages if assembler is really the only low-level language.

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