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    {Jaxom,Imriel,Liam}'s Dad Kennedy's Avatar
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    The list that I was taught was (low to high):

    Object Code (written with a HEX editor, Debug, or some type of interpreter)
    Assembly

    (Rather large step)

    C
    Fortran

    (short step, but fairly far)

    C++
    Ada

    From here, it gets rather hairy, but it would be something like VC++, VB, Java, there was no C# back in my school days.

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    Many people refer to C (and especially C++) as "Middle Level" Languages, because that gap exists which has been mentioned in all the previous posts.
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