[pjmlp]

Actually it is worse than that, have a look at most languages designed in the 70s, like CLU and Modula-2.

[zingplex]

Worse in what ways?

[pjmlp]

Support for generics (CLI) and exceptions (both).

There are other languages I can take out of the bag like Mesa/Cedar, Interlisp-D, Smalltalk-80, although they are already on the 80's borderline, which then also brings Ada, Standard ML and Object Pascal into the picture.