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ASP programmers typically learned ASP because they are corporate programmers. Corporate programmers are typically college educated. A lot of PHP scripters (not programmers) picked it up as a necessity to get something done. That is the reason why PHP coders typically are very amateur. PHP is not taught in colleges AFAIK and that is another reason. Actually, I don't think ASP is either.
For the adult business you will find PHP is much more commonplace and also much easier to deploy on. If you decide to run Windows there's not much software in the adult industry you can install since most of it is PHP.
If you really want to understand the differences between languages I highly recommend the book "Programming Language Pragmatics". Not for the faint of heart.
In general, the more languages a programmer has programmed in the better a programmer he is. I'm studying Lisp right now, not because I plan on using it but because I think it will change the way I think about programming for the better. Each language you learn teaches you something and makes you a better programmer.
Personally, my eye is on Ruby and especially Rubinius. Unfortunately I can't use it as much as I would like because most of my clients can't deploy / use it on their servers.
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