A categorization that contains all but one language (Assembler) is not a useful categorization.
Besides, why die on this hill? So everybody suddenly concedes that, fine, C is a "high level language". Is anybody's opinions going to be changed? No.
So, how about we stick to useful definitions, and agree that in modern times C is a low-level language, and, likewise, understand that agreeing to that isn't going to change one letter of the C specification or remove one line of C's libraries or anything else?
There's no gain to be had by anyone in this silly line of argument.
But that's exactly the point I was trying to make, albeit I wasn't very good at getting it across the internetz. Assembler is not truly "one language" it's actually a collection of mnemonics that are all extremely similar but based on specific architectures and instruction sets.
The point I want to get across is that for you C is a low level language. To the guy programming a fancy toaster in whatever version of an Assembly language C is a high level language. To be anally retentive and follow your comment about the ranking of languages, if I follow that logic then the only two low level languages would be C, Assembly, and perhaps a compiler complier circa the early 70's that whose name I cant remember. The difference between Assembler and C is extremely jarring in comparison to the difference between C and Javascript (for example).
One thing to note is that C is used a lot for low level systems programming and because of it it's so commonly described as a low level programming language. That said, writing low level systems programs does not mean that we're exclusively using a low level language to do so.
Besides, why die on this hill? So everybody suddenly concedes that, fine, C is a "high level language". Is anybody's opinions going to be changed? No.
So, how about we stick to useful definitions, and agree that in modern times C is a low-level language, and, likewise, understand that agreeing to that isn't going to change one letter of the C specification or remove one line of C's libraries or anything else?
There's no gain to be had by anyone in this silly line of argument.