definition of a highlevel language?

[MRAB]

On May 26, 8:43 pm, "inhahe" <inh... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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The problem with in-line asm is that it's processor-specific; I think
that going lower level than C would be a mistake, except in very
special cases.