Any decent modern general-purpose languages?

Assembly: Unportable. No standardised syntax.
Classical Visual Basic: Some good parts. Shit overall.
C: Shitty standard library. Deficient type system. Can't into Unicode. ``Unportable assembly.''
D and C++: Obfuscated boilerplate languages.
Java and C#: Forced OOP.
Common Lisp: Archaic cons-based library. Writing complex macros is a PitA due to the unlispy quotation syntaxes.
Scheme: CL without namespaces.
Clojure and Erlang: Concurrency is unneeded outside of a few very specific applications. Parallelism is where it's at.
OCaml: Great language, only one, deficient, implementation.
Haskell: Academic sex toy.
Forth: Reinventing the wheel over and over.
Ruby: Implicit declarations. Slow as fuck.
Python: Implicit declarations. FioC.
Perl: Brain damage.
PHP: Pretty much shit.
JavaScript: "" == false

It's impossible to list them all but, please, what decent modern general-purpose languages exist?

>>172
"premature optimisation" bullshit
Optimisation should be integrated into design
Truth: asm is less readable and thus less maintanable.
Ideally, programs should be executable algorithms, expressed in adequate abstractions. Optimization should be done just when necessary, because it's architecture-dependent and almost write-only.
Or are you telling me to follow master FrozenVoid?
IHBT

>>172
Optimisation should be integrated into design, thought of as "what's the best way to do this" throughout so that the final product doesn't need much more done to it.

"The best way to do this" is the most readable way to do it. If the optimized way is the most readable then do that, if the nieve way is the most readable then do that. If it profiles badly, THEN rewrite it in the optimized way and leave a small novel in the comments on why you made every choice you made and what its actually accomplishing.

I'm not saying that your way of coding is wrong or bad or anything, I'm just saying that it makes people not want to work with you.