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by pfundstein 1967 days ago
Did you just call C a high level language?
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Indeed,

"C Is Not a Low-level Language, Your computer is not a fast PDP-11."

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

Technically, it is. But usage of the term has shifted a lot over the last 50 years.