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.

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which could be accomplished easily with a script that compiles c with namespaces to c with name mangling.
Name mangling is utter bullshit for anything meant to be interfaced with.