That, in the conventional classification, C is considered a high level language, is definitely what I learned in some languages class. This seems like an odd result given that it is probably the least abstract language that the vast majority of programmers might ever encounter, outside the exercise or two on assembly that they might see in an architectures class. Sort of how, as far as I know, most (all?) PIC and AVR microcontrollers would be considered "very large scale integration" chips.
This the best possible outcome, though -- since they used up these kind of "biggest classification that doesn't sound totally silly" labels in the 70's and 80's or whatever, we don't have to worry about classifying languages anymore, which was not really all that productive to do anyway.
Although I do wonder what level Verilog should be considered.
This the best possible outcome, though -- since they used up these kind of "biggest classification that doesn't sound totally silly" labels in the 70's and 80's or whatever, we don't have to worry about classifying languages anymore, which was not really all that productive to do anyway.
Although I do wonder what level Verilog should be considered.