In the
context of
computers, being high-level means
far from
direct. High-level
code greatly
differs from
machine code because it is
simplified and sometimes
interpreted. Examples of high-level
languages are
Perl and
Visual Basic.
C is
technically high-level, in that it is not pure
machine code, but is much more
low-level than what most people consider "high-level".
People who aren't too
familiar with
computers may
confuse the term to mean that high-level
programming is
hard, but "high-level" is from a
machine code point of view, so high-level coding is much
easier.