definition of a highlevel language?

[inhahe]

I like to think of a language that would combine low-level and high-level 
features to be used at the programmer's whim.  C--, High Level Assembly, and 
C++ with in-line assembly are examples, but none of them come as high-level 
as Python. Other possible examples might be ctypes, numpy, array.array, and 
I heard a rumor that Python 3.0 might have optional type declarations.   My 
ideal language would be like a version of C++ (including in-line asm), or 
C-- with classes, that's compiled, but supports Python abstractions and 
features wherever possible (including doing away with {}'s and ;'s).

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> what is crazy about it?
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> in the same way programming webapps in C would be annoying because you
> have to do a lot of lowlevel tasks it is dumb to program computer ina
> highlevellanguage because you dont have direct access to lowlevel
> tasks meaning you cant program it very efficiently, ie make it fast?