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by falcrist 982 days ago
> If “low level” means “runs on the CPU almost literally as written.” then no it’s not.

But doesn't this still depend on what CPU you're talking about? Your C code will map much more closely to the instructions of the machine code of an 8051 or even an M4 than it will to an x86.

Thus any general-purpose language is more or less "low level" depending on the CPU it's running on. This seems like a poor definition.