A team of agricultural engineers is developing a Smart Greenhouse Climate Controller. The system utilizes a high-level programming language for the cloud-connected web application (which manages the user dashboard, data logging, and remote notifications) and a low-level programming language for the embedded microcontroller (which directly samples data from temperature and soil moisture sensors and triggers irrigation valves).
Discuss the characteristics of high-level languages and low-level languages that make them appropriate for coding these different parts of the greenhouse system.
Your answer should consider:
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