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What does high level or low level language mean?

I have heard of languages referred to as high-level, medium-level, and low-level. But what does this mean?

17th Nov 2016, 1:20 PM
NICKALL [EP]
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high level language is a human understandable language e.g English, java, c++ or any other language.....and a low level language is computer understandable language e.g 01010100..
17th Nov 2016, 1:39 PM
Harshit Sharma
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@Harshit Sharma that makes sense because in Assembly you actually convert numbers into ASCII characters and you use bytes and bits alot. Thanks!
17th Nov 2016, 1:43 PM
NICKALL [EP]
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welcome..
17th Nov 2016, 1:44 PM
Harshit Sharma
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Computers understand 0 's and 1's but this doesn't make much sense to humans.imagine having to write a program using 0101010101010100101011111(low level language) Highlevel language is human understandable In python print means display something and by looking at it you can understand what it's ment to do
18th Nov 2016, 6:12 PM
Agaba Ivan
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