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I would say it is only a low level language if it's a form of assembly or used in systems programming like Linux or OpenBSD or whatever else in the kernel land

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I would say that any language that has if-else instruction, for loop, and the ability to define functions/procedures is "high level".

You can do all those things with a macro assembler.

Assembly has all of these features.

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