Where do I go from here?



The questions is, what programming language do you recommend that I
become an expert in?

Before you hit reply, let me give you a background:
Took C programming class in HS
VB class in college (twice - beer not brains caused the failure)
Military programming training in ADA and dabbled in some others.
Worked as network admin, using batch files and vbscript
Just finishing web programming degree, studied
javascript, vbscript, asp, php, perl, JSP (next semester), sql and
database.

The problem is that I have never had the opportunity to really dig into
any language. With school about to end I will have some free time to
work on what I want, but I don't know what I want.

I am currently a MS network admin. That is probably where I will stay.
I took web programming, just becuase I know I will need that
background in the future. I am interested in web sites. I am trying
to get my own up and running. It is currently housed on a linux web
server, but I can change that if I want.

I want to learn something that will help with web programming, and my
job as a network admin. If I was a linux admin, this would be perl,
enough said. But with windows, the first thought I had was VB. But VB
is really that powerful on the web (or am i wrong? I have not used .net
stuff yet just older vb and vbscript). ASP doesn't help much at my
job.

Any ideas on where I should go now? Should I try to master PHP and
VBscript?

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