"C is a high level, procedural/structured, and general purpose programming language and resembles few other high level languages such as Fortran, Pascal, and PL/1. However, we cannot call the C language as a "Purely High Level Language".
"C stands somewhere between the high-level languages meant for carrying on special activities and the low level languages such as assembly language of a machine because of some features like "System Independence", "Limited Data Type", "High Flexibility", it is considered as a powerful language C has also become popular because of its portability across systems."
