How high level is D?

[Dukc]

On Wednesday, 21 November 2018 at 09:56:16 UTC, bmelo wrote:
> Hi people, I’m new to D and I am curious about how high level 
> is D compared to another languages. I have a list of what 
> languages to compare and I wanna know where you would classify 
> D among them.
> The languages are: C, C++, Objective-C, D, Go, Swift, Pascal, 
> Fortran, BASIC, Cobol, C#, Forth and Java.
>
> When I talk about low and high level language I’m referring to 
> how much control the language gives to the hardware and what 
> has more abstraction levels.

In this regard, D is a lot like C++ in the regard that it can go 
both low-level and high-level. You can go as low as you can with 
C/C++/Forth: You can drop the type system, manage raw memory and 
even embed assembly into code.

But D can also get high-level and abstract a lot. Of the 
languages you listed, I don't think any of them, with possible 
exception of Swift (which I don't know about, except that it's a 
new language), or Forth with some VERY advanced meta library, can 
match expressive power of D.