[jerf]

You've really missed my point. I pretty much defined high level and low level by how they expanded out from simple instructions. You can't cite examples to prove this is wrong, by definition you've classified your definitions wrong. That this is not a universal definition doesn't bother me one little bit, because there is not universal definition of any non-trivial software engineering term.

[stcredzero]

Your definition classifies some widely recognized "high level" languages as low level.

[Retric]

If you want to redefine a commonly used term your doing something wrong. What you need to do is define a new term. Replace "High Level Languages" with "Abstract Languages" and nobody would have a problem with what you said. It might not mean anything, but at least it's clear. However, when you, redefine an existing term and you can be wrong and people will call you on it.