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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Systems programming is within C's intended domain.
This was true. It's still true now for the systems--and their modern equivalents--that it was true for then. Everyone knows "the systems domain has changed significantly." Yet they're still dragging C and C++ around their necks like a 50 pound weight.

You know they run Java and all kinds of things on embedded systems these days.
This discussion is over. You never understood what I was saying in the first place, and now you're being contrary for its own sake.