definition of a highlevel language?

[notnorwegian at yahoo.se]

On 26 Maj, 22:16, miller.pau... at gmail.com wrote:
> On May 26, 3:56 pm, notnorweg... at yahoo.se wrote:
>
> > is the first example here a layer between machine and the second
> > example?
>
> My first example was intended to be C, or at least close to it.  The
> second example is Python.  I consider the C snippet to be low-level,
> while the corresponding Python is high-level.  There are simply fewer
> extraneous details for me to worry about at the Python level, and
> that's why I prefer to work with Python over C when practical.

i know one is C and one i spython, iwas talking more at a conceptual
level and i know cpython is written in C.

what im asking is can a highlevellanguage be written directly on top
of the machine or a highlevellanguage is always written on top of a
lowlevellanguage?

i eman do they have basic operators that are more abstract in their
nature?