What language to learn?

I don't want to create games or nifty applications to publish on the web.

I just wanna learn something to make server management easier via applications I create. Things like launching applications if they're not running, restarting Apache if a configuration file is changed &c.

I'm a Windows Server guy, so keep that in mind.

Sage goes in every field.

sage doesn't work here does it

fuck

C FLAT
C FLAT IS GOOD
THO THE SYNTAXE BLOWS

USE MONO NOT MS IDE

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learn C first. Then, learn x86 assembly. Then, learn c++. Then, learn c#. Then, learn python.

php

Python is always a good choice.
I use Unix Shell Scripting for the tasks you mentioned. For Windows, you might look into JScript.