What is a High Level Programming Language?

Charles Dahab
1 min readJun 11, 2019

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A High-level programming language is a programming language that is easily understandable and close to human language.

Developers create high-level languages in order to avoid highly difficult low level machine language.

The main advantage of high-level languages is that they are easier to read, write and maintain.

Examples of High Level Programming Languages: Java, Python, Ruby.

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Charles Dahab

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