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")

I don't see anything useful or significant.
The November 2009 draft includes several changes to the C99 language and library specifications, such as:

    * Alignment specification (_Align specifier, alignof operator, aligned_alloc function)
    * Multithreading support (_Thread_local storage-class specifier, <threads.h> header including thread creation/management functions, mutex, condition variable and thread-specific storage functionality)
    * Improved Unicode support (char16_t and char32_t types for storing UTF-16/UTF-32 encoded data, including the corresponding u and U string literal prefixes and conversion functions in <uchar.h>)
    * Removal of the gets function
    * Bounds-checking interfaces (Annex K)
    * Analyzability features (Annex L)