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")

This article really sucks. If I knew nothing about PL/I my impression of it would be pretty horrible. This guy is not talking up PL/I, he's shitting on C (and doing a terrible job of it!)

I've gotten as far as some allusions about something or other being checked by the compiler (but no details of course), the rest is just complaints about cosmetics. And the next section is... more complaints about cosmetics. Does he ever get into anything meaningful?