definition of a highlevel language?

[notnorwegian at yahoo.se]

guess what im after is:


> max = len (seq);
> for (int i = 0; i < max; ++i) {
>     do something with seq[i];
>
> }

>
> for item in seq:
>    do something with item

is the first example here a layer between machine and the second
example?

is it machine -> low-level -> highlevel
or is it machine -> highlevel

?