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.

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There is little reason to use it these days
Consider me offended

You're an academician, my friend. Name me a language that can compile to native code on a decently wide scale of popular architectures

Now tell me if those languages provide equally crossplatform lowlevel tools that are useful in daily life(threading and synchronization, atomic operations, automatically converted codepaged "unlimited" length strings, possibility of almost pure object oriented programming)

Java? Don't make me laugh
C? Not a chance. Too inbred with UNIX
C++? God dammit, what a disaster? Something as simple as atomic operations. I don't want to code them in assembler for any platform I come to
C#? Well, it's getting there but it's still a botched syntax, designed to cater to brain dead american university students

If only Lisp machines still existed. Then Object Pascal would have had a worthy opponent

Yes, I mad