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Note that the terms "high-level" and "low-level" are inherently relative. Originally, [[assembly language]] was considered low-level and [[COBOL]], [[C programming language|C]], etc. were considered high-level. Many programmers today might refer to these latter languages as low-level. For more on this distinction, see the external link below.
Most high-level languages ouptut [[object file|object]] or [[Machine language|machine]] code directly for a target machine, but a few do not, instead outputing an [[intermediate language]] only, to submit to a suitable compiler, which then outputs finished object or machine code. Such intermediate languages fall in complexity between high-level languages and low-level languages.
==See also==▼
▲==See also==
*[[Low-level programming language]]s
*[[Very high-level programming language]]s
== External link ==▼
* http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HighLevelLanguage - The [[WikiWikiWeb]]'s article on high-level programming languages
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