High-level programming language

In computer science, a high-level programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer.

Advantages

High-level programming languages may:

Use natural language elements
Be easier to use
May automate (or even hide entirely) significant areas of computing systems (e.g. memory management)

These factors makes the process of developing a program simpler and more understandable, relative to a low-level programming language.

The amount of abstraction provided defines how "high-level" a programming language is.

Low-level programming languages provide little or no abstraction from a computer's instruction set architecture.

Commands or functions in the language map closely to processor instructions.

Low-level languages are simple and efficient, but more difficult to use.