why oh why do we still let an enemy oppressor flag still fly in this country?
Because we live in a country with Freedom of Speech. We're not some piece of shit country where you have to get your opinions approved by Google or the government before airing them.
If you don't see lower costs, it's probably because either the market has decided to utilize the tech to make products better rather than cheaper, or because there is no real competition in the market.
There is never real competition in any market because it's a theoretical abstraction that's impossible to achieve in reality. For a free market to function, consumers need to have immediate access to all information necessary to make an informed product choice, the price and availability of all competing products, and the prices of all products must include ALL costs associated with that product. These conditions are never true in reality.
It appears that PL/I (and its dialects) is, or will be, the most widely used higher level language for systems programming. -- J. Sammet
