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 almost like you didn't even read my response.
I did read it. Did you read any of mine?

I just don't agree with your assertions, or maybe your perception just falls woefully short. You haven't given so much as an example so the argument is vacuous. Take it up with the standards committee if you think C is adequate for its domain. You could save them the trouble of future revisions.

No, C will be around in 20 years' time, like you say, but C99 will not get it there.

In terms of revision and extension C1x doesn't add much breadth, it merely facilitates existing applications. Let me rephrase that with some meat: the systems domain alone has broadened, and relevant techniques which have not been addressed in standard C (including C1x) have proven their worth, some recently, some decades ago. This won't kill C, but one hopes it will nurture something more suitable.