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?

>>24
Go is hardly useless. It it enough like C to feel familiar while not bothering to implement features irrelevant to modern programming. That makes it simple to program with (unlike stuf like C++) without any major drawbacks (such as Java's forced OOP or scripting languages' inability to do any lower level stuff, not to mention their egregiously slow speed). Go sources are usually more portable than your standard C or C++ code too.

For example, the lack of pointer arithmetic and manual memory management means that the programmer has a lot less stuff to worry about.

In addition to removing completely unnecessary (and outright dangerous) features, Go is also quite strict. You mustn't have unused variables, code style is enforced, no implicit type casting (including int and int32, despite being the same underneath, being separate and requiring explicit casting), etc. While that may seem to be excessively restrictive to your standard volatile C obfuctor, it inevitably results in a code that is generally cleaner, safer and better.

Garbage collection should be the norm in userland applications anyway, because the tiny amount of speed gained by manual memory management is utterly negligible in all but the most performance-critical code, while it makes segfaults and memory leaks all but gone (yes, >>22, GC is actually useful).

In speed, it's true that Go is somewhat slower than C/C++, but that's only to be expected with GC, type reflection and other features. It still at least matches, if not outright exceeds, the (both programming and execution) speed of most equivalent Java programs.

Google stated that they use Go in several of their internal applications. In addition to that, Go is a good choice for Google App Engine.

Conclusively, Go is a true current-generation programming language that's focused on ease of use and good programs, not on any  irrelevant innovation that's ultimately destructive, since it precludes the good, simple and obvious ways of coding in order for the programmer to make use of the novelties.