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?

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If you plan your design like this and have it carefully thought out before writing a single line of code, the chances are high that you'll be ahead of those who "optimise later", without even needing to go to inline Asm.
well the issue isn't that you're making things more efficient, efficiency is generally good, the issue is that it's your only priority.

take a contrived fibinacci example. you don't want to use the recursive O(2^n) algorithm...

but you also probably also don't want to use the O(1) algorithm unless you have a REALLY good reason to:


const double inverseSqrt5 = 0.44721359549995793928183473374626
const double phi = 1.6180339887498948482045868343656

static int Fibonacci(int n) {
    return (int)Math.Floor(Math.Pow(phi, n) * inverseSqrt5 + 0.5);
}