[sagichmal]

The downvotes are because you have chosen to make an irritating pedantic point about word use when the meaning was entirely clear in context.

[weberc2]

Wasn't trying to be pedantic; whatever is "entirely clear in context" is not entirely clear to me at all. Did he use a term that I'm unfamiliar with or did he use the term I'm familiar with in a way that is incongruent with my understanding?

[sagichmal]

Informally, there is no difference between higher order programming languages and higher level programming languages.

[weberc2]

Thanks for the explanation; I hadn't heard that term before. :)