Python for consistent stuff, Bash for helper stuff
C++ for other apps.
And Go (
http://golang.org). Try it out. It might not be as mature as C++, but it's very promising. The only thing that really hurts about Go is the way the binaries are generated... I can only hope some day someone writes a Go compiler with LLVM, because the current way of binary generation is just far too
[b][u]ENTERPRISE[/u][/b]y (
read: shitty and retarded... just translate Go into an intermediate language and compile it with GCC, or whatever. don't reinvent the wheel if you don't really have to).