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")

>>36
So let's get this straight:

Systems programming is within C's intended domain.
C's domain has not changed.
The systems domain has changed significantly.

Which one of these do you want to eliminate?

roughly the kind of systems they were dealing with in the 70s.
Unless you're limiting yourself to working on ~30 year old hardware (in which case you don't count), that's utter nonsense. You know they run Java and all kinds of things on embedded systems these days.