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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 ouptutoutput [[object file|object]] or [[Machine language|machine]] code directly for a target processor or [[operating system]], but a few do not, instead outputing an [[intermediate language]] only, often [[C programming language|C]], to submit to a compiler for that intermediate language, which then outputs finished object or machine code. This is usually done to gain [[Porting|portability]] or [[Optimization (computer science)|optimization]]. Such intermediate languages fall in complexity between high-level languages and low-level languages.

==List of High-level programming languages==