Alternatives to C/C++

Instead of sticking with C/C++ for performance consider:
1.Free Pascal -Small memory use,very fast, easy debug
2.OCaml - medium memory use, fast,very terse, functional and secure.
3.FreeBasic - very fast,easy to use, low memory use, supports QBasic code as dialect. Other Basics to consider: PureBasic/Gambas/PowerBASIC
4.Digital Mars D- fast, easy to write and debug, large library, transition from C/C++ much easier.Garbage collection can be turned off.

If anything this thread proves C/C++ are irreplaceable.
my 2cents:
1.Pascal is ancient ALGOL BDSM system with tons of boilerplate.
2.Ocaml: Ints which are garbage collected(with tagbits inside the Int) and actually are a castrated version of real ints. A program like "Hello world" fails to run(i have not seen a language (until today) on which canonical Hello World breaks).
3.FreeBasic - Its neither fast or memory efficient enough to compete with C/C++. best BASICs are unfortunately commercial and closed source.
4.Digital Mars D - garbage collection/runtime can't be "just turned off" because the libraries depend on it. Plus its has much more overhead than plain C. There 2 standard libraries and two branches which get in the way.nicer language for large programs than C++.