Difference Between High-Level Language and Low-Level Language

Let us first learn about High-level and Low-level language −

High-level language

It can be easily interpreted as well as compiled in comparison to low-level language.
It can be considered as a programmer-friendly language.
It is easy to understand.
It is easy to debug.
It is simple in terms of maintenance.
It requires a compiler/interpreter to be translated into machine code.
It can be run on different platforms.
It can be ported from one location to another.
It is less memory efficient, i.e it consumes more memory in comparison to low-level languages.
Examples of high level languages include C, C++, Java, Python.
It is used widely in today's times.

We will now understand the differences between High-Level and Low-Level programming languages −

High-Level Language	Low-level language
It can be considered as a programmer-friendly language.	It is considered as a machine-friendly language.
It requires a compiler/interpreter to be translated into machine code.	It requires an assembler that would translate instructions.
It can be ported from one location to another.	It is not portable.
It is easy to understand.	It is difficult to understand.
It is easy to debug.	It is difficult to debug.
It is less memory efficient, i.e., it consumes more memory in comparison to low-level languages.	It consumes less memory.

Published on 02-Mar-2021 05:21:16