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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1) Do input/output to some port or interface with some hardware.
Your OS should offer APIs for this.  (Linux)
2) Perform some complex SIMD arith (see: MMX, SSE on x86), and have your compiler generate code which means exactly what you intended the code to do.
Your compiler should offer APIs for this.  (GCC)