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> > All High level languages do is attempt to organize the
> > macros and subroutines that might otherwise be written in
> > assembler...
> 
> ...A high level language should be more than a glorified macro assembler...

In particular, a high-level language should do its best to check the
programmer's code for errors -- something no macro assembler will ever
be able to do very well.  Features like type checking are not mere frills;
they catch many errors.	 Decent high-level languages give the translator
a much better grasp of what the programmer is doing, so it can point out
inconsistencies.  (It can also optimize the code better -- most hand-written
assembler is not highly optimized, because it's too much work for a human.)
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