meet your new god PL/I

We live in a world where C and C++ are the only game in town as far as compile to platform languages. Java, C# and even scripting languages like Python and Ruby are all garbage collected VM languages that only provide a bandaid to all of C and C++'s problems. There is a solution, PL/I, a very full featured systems, scientific and enterprise language that handles all the issues that C and C++ leave the programmer to work out on his own. Read this comparison between C and PL/I and you'll see its a very serious systems programming language what was and still is ahead of its time:
http://www.uni-muenster.de/ZIV.EberhardSturm/PL1andC.html

(PL/I is pronounced pee-el-one, not pee-el-eye, it stands for "Programming Language One")

We actually use PL/I where I work on our dinosaur IBM mainframe. I was offered the chance to learn it, but I figured I'd better stick to Java if I want to have a chance in the job market.

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The only commercial compilers available for PL/I are for IBM mainframes, so in a sense it is a dead legacy language. You have to know Java nowadays for enterprise computing as it is the lingua franca of business infrastructure. But for anyone who is doing compile to .exe programming, I think that PL/I is a must see.