Relative Meaning
The terms high-level and low-level are inherently relative. Some decades ago, the C language, and similar languages, were most often considered "high-level". Many programmers today might refer to C as low-level.
Assembly language may itself be regarded as a higher level (but often still one-to-one if used without macros) representation of machine code, as it supports concepts such as constants and (limited) expressions, sometimes even variables, procedures, and data structures. Machine code, in its turn, is inherently at a slightly higher level than the microcode or micro-operations used internally in many processors.
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