High Level Languages that aren't shit

Do any exist? I've been looking for something like a high level C. The closest thing is probably Lua, but that's obviously unacceptable. Plus Lua is more C++ and less C. I liked Perl, but Perl 6 is not so good and has left a bad taste in my mouth.

IronPython maybe?
Just becouse python has OOP capabilities you don't need to use it.
With the module system you can use it as an excellent procedural language. And python is the language that hates modern syntax the most so it will probably fit you.