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")

>>32
Did you even glance at the draft? It contradicts everything you say about the new standard.

I don't care if you think the systems domain is still what it was in the '70s. Anyone can see that it isn't. We've stopped ratcheting up clock speeds with Moore's Law and instead are making different kinds of chips--some of them highly heterogeneous. Even embedded systems are different, most of which are more robust and more powerful than the big systems of the day. Even Zilog has practically dropped off the face of the planet.

But it's bizarre that you bring up BitC, Go and friends. Back in >>18 I was getting shit on for suggesting that modern alternatives are required because revising and extending C is inappropriate to the modern domain.