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.

C/C++/Java/C#

System.FileAccess.CDirectoryIterator System.FileAccess.openDirectory("./", "rw");
It.setFilterExpression("*.png");
while (It.notEnd()) {
  CString Src = It.getName();
  CString Dst = Src.copy();
  System.RegEx.replace(Dst, "$png", "jpg", System.RegEx.SingleOccurency);
  System.ImageLibrary.CImage Img;
  Img.loadPNG(Src);
  Img.saveJPG(Dst, System.ImageLibrary.Overwrite);
  It.advance();
}