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")

>>35
I don't care if you think the systems domain is still what it was in the '70s.
I don't think that. This, essentially, is your entire problem: that you think I think that.

I don't.

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.
That was me doing the shitting. And my comment was that C is not showing its age. I stand by that comment. I use C all the time. It's still very, very useful for embedded systems---roughly the kind of systems they were dealing with in the 70s.