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Originally posted by Lane:
...if you think you can go further, use assembly language 
its your own funeral 
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My partner is an ex 8086 assembly programmer and its now about as useful as a chocolate kettle unless you want to work with boring embedded stuff.
PHP and Perl are simple to learn and the most useful for your online and offline scripting work. It is also of great benefit to learn a little unix while working yourself through perl and PHP. If you are thinking about a future in serious online data handling then C is a must. And don't forget Java, a few lines of code browser side can be very useful at times.