Well... to add to the board a bit, I figured I'd throw out the question thats been beaten to death countless times.

"Which programming language should I learn?"

I am a Networking major, so I haven't had much programming experience. All I know so far is bash scripting. Since my concerns lie primarily in system administration, etc., I've been leaning towards Perl, only because I've heard it is useful for scripting simple jobs. On the other hand, I am very interested in learning C, as I've turned into a linux junkie over the past year, I would like to really understand some of the finer things involved. Plus... it's obviously a more powerful language than Perl.

What do you think?