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High-level languages are designed independent of a specific computing [[Computer architecture|system architecture]]. This facilitates executing a program written in such a language on any computing system with compatible support for the Interpreted or [[Just-in-time compilation|JIT]] program. High-level languages can be improved as their designers develop improvements. In other cases, new high-level languages evolve from one or more others with the goal of aggregating the most popular constructs with new or improved features. An example of this is [[Scala (programming language)|Scala]] which maintains backward compatibility with [[Java (programming language)|Java]], which meansmeaning that programs and libraries written in Java will continue to be usable even if a programming shop switches to Scala; this makes the transition easier and the lifespan of such high-level coding indefinite. In contrast, low-level programs rarely survive beyond the [[Computer architecture|system architecture]] which they were written for without major revision. This is the engineering 'trade-off' for the 'Abstraction Penalty'.

== Relative meaning ==