[pfundstein]

Did you just call C a high level language?

[pjmlp]

Indeed,

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

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

[pocketgrok]

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