definition of a highlevel language?

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Mon, 26 May 2008 13:51:46 -0700, notnorwegian wrote:

> 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?

What do you mean by "directly on top of the machine"?  How do you want to
implement a language without using *another* language?  At the very lowest
level there's machine language.  And of course it is possible to implement
high level languages in machine language.  That's a lot of work and not
very portable of course.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch