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")

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It's too bad. C is showing its age, just a tad. It's held up remarkably well and the only reason I think it could use replacing owes to the technology we've developed in the mean time... things that can't be grafted on, such as verification.

I also think lightweight- and host-thread concurrency need to be bridged somehow. In C you've got library threads and time slicers. Not pretty, though surprisingly usable. Go at least does the remarkable job of muxing threads onto CPUs for you (which you can't really do at all in C), but you're left with no control over it.