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I'm taking an introduction to IT course at WGU. According to the quiz results I got, Javascript is not a high level language while BASIC is a high level language. Not Visual Basic, not Quick Basic, classic BASIC is a higher level language than Javascript. Can anyone rationalize this? Humor would be appreciated.



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    This question is basic – Nathan Fries Aug 02 '19 at 19:49
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    I don't agree with them at all. High-level languages are essentially everything above Assembly. – Barmar Aug 02 '19 at 19:50
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    This question isn't really appropriate for [so], it might be more appropriate for [cs.se]. – Barmar Aug 02 '19 at 19:51
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    I guess you should read Module 15 page 93 to see what their rationale is for this answer. – Barmar Aug 02 '19 at 19:52
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    I think it's a trick question. Javascript isn't a language; JavaScript is. – Paul Aug 02 '19 at 19:56
  • And if I had to rank these 4 languages on how high they are, I would agree with your answer. The original Dartmouth BASIC (which I actually used when I was a teenager) had much simpler data and control structures than any of the other languages. Just numbers, arrays, and strings, no heterogeneous structures. Subroutines didn't take parameters, functions could only be one line, and all variables are global. – Barmar Aug 02 '19 at 19:56
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    I read Module 15 page 93. This is what it said, "There is a large number of high-level languages used to write programs. Some of the most common being: BASIC, C, C++, Java, and Python." No rationale is given. My theory is the writer did not include Javascript in the list so the person who wrote the quiz decided it was not a high level language. – Jeffrey Harper Aug 02 '19 at 19:56
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    Now that I think of it, the idea that BASIC is commonly used to write programs is hilarious. – Jeffrey Harper Aug 02 '19 at 19:58
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    I guess the fact that there are more compile-to-JS languages than compile-to-BASIC languages could be confused for an argument if you squint really hard. – Asad Saeeduddin Aug 02 '19 at 20:00
  • Asad, that's a good rationalization. It's like Javascript is the machine language of the web, if you ignore webassembly. – Jeffrey Harper Aug 02 '19 at 20:02
  • Maybe is something about compilation. And maybe the author of the question misses his [MSX HotBit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotbit). – heringer Aug 02 '19 at 20:02

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