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The machine level.
gate level netlist
It is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer.
It is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer.
Assembly language is low-level because it has the least amount of abstraction between the source and the resultant machine code. That is, the translation from assembly language to machine code is 1:1. All high-level languages have much higher degrees of abstraction.
Yes, PHP is a high level programming language because it provides abstraction from the details of the computer.
A low-level programming language is one that has little to no abstraction between the source code and the machine code produced by the language translator. Machine code has no abstraction whatsoever and is the lowest possible level of coding (machine code is the native language of the machine). Assembly language has very little abstraction because each mnemonic either maps 1:1 with a specific machine operation code (opcode), or maps to one of several opcodes that only differ by the operand types and can be implied from those operands. Given the lack of abstraction, low-level code is machine-dependent code and is therefore non-portable. That is, code is written specifically to suit the assembler and thus the machine it was intended to execute upon. Conversely, high-level code has a high-level of abstraction and is generally portable. That is, code is written to suit the language compiler or interpreter rather than underlying hardware. High-level languages generally provide a much more convenient method of producing low-level code that is much easier for humans to read, write and maintain, largely due to the high-level of abstraction these languages provide.
(HAL) hardware abstraction layer