What are the characteristics of high level languages?

What is high level programming language?The programming language that are close to human language are called high level programing languages. The characteristics of high level languages:

• Easy to learn
• Easy to find errors
• Machine-Independent
• Availability of Library Functions
• Shorter Programs
• Well-Defined Syntax and Standard
• Source code understandable by any other programe

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