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Which programming lang to learn?

I am new to programing. I work primarly on windows Servers and Workstations.
I don't want to start off with an outdated lang that no one uses. I need something relivant with Microsoft

I have scripted before batch and etc.

Also what tools will I need to begin my adventure?
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What are your goals in learning a programming language?  Is this just to broaden your skills, or make yourself more marketable, or to solve some particular work problem?  Are looking for scripting language recommendations, or web applications, etc?

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Didn't see this question before now, but here are my $0.02.  Start with JavaScript, and learn it very, very well.  It runs on every browser, so if you write anything at all in JavaScript and you publish it on the WWW, you have deployed your application directly onto your clients' computers.  That alone argues for getting JavaScript right -- completely right -- at the very beginning.  Of course you will also need to understand HTML(5) and CSS(3).  On the server, you can use PHP and MySQL or any similar scripting language and database variant.  If you want a job at Facebook, learn PHP because HHVM is a PHP derivative and that's what they use.  If you want to build web sites professionally, but you're not interested in working at Facebook, learn the Laravel framework and WordPress.