Hi Scorpion
For large complex sys admin tasks (and there shouldn't be many) C is a good language. Compiled programs run faster. However, for little short jobs, you may want to consider Perl, Tcl, Expect, and shell scripting. Perl is good as there are more people that learn it over the other languages, but Tcl and expect (an extension of the Tcl language) are just as good (and sometimes more readable). Tcl looks a lot like C code. Hope this helps.
Happy Hacking
