The higher level languages involve more symbolism and constructs that are supposed to be closer to how humans normally think. C (and somewhat C++) has a reputation as being somewhat a hybrid low/high level because it has many constructs that are in high level languages, but also has instructions (e.g. shifts) that are low level languages but ... More @Wikipedia
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