You don't know what you're talking about

> > Which language can do anything without some asm and support as many platforms as C?

> I wouldn't be surprised if someone figured out how to do the interrupts and register control necessary to invoke syscalls with pure LISP/Scheme/CL :P

Haha

> P.S. anything that compiles with LLVM and has an ingrained way to do print() that doesn't invoke libc, although there's a blurry line here between "pure asm"/"compiles to asm" that involves trusting-trust-style bootstrapping of features into the compiler

Actually LLVM IR has no concept of syscalls, you have to use inline assembly inside your IR to issue syscalls.