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")

>>6
Back to /lounge/, MILKRIBS.

>>8
Agreed. WHBT. I also think it's hilarious that in order to peddle alternatives to C/C++, the creators complain about the problems of C/C++ while apparently not recognizing what audiences they serve and what they're reasonably good at. "Here, my nail hammer can serve your sledgehammer needs, your wrench needs, and your jackhammer needs!" Brilliant deduction, assface. Brilliant.