Language advice?

Ok, geeky friends....

I want to freshen up some of the web-based tools that I use on my home machine and commercial web server, both of which are Linux based. Historically, I've used perl, but the last few years I've been doing a lot of C# development at work and I have to admit --- it's a great language and I find the idea of going back to perl unappetizing.

Underlying technologies that I want to use are MySQL, XML/XSLT, and Apache.

So I'm consdering my options. I've toyed with mono but I'm not convinced that it's got enough of the class libraries that I've gotten used to with the C# CRL. (In particular, I'm worried about the XML, XSLT, and OLE/ODBC stuff.) I've wanted to learn Python for years but never taken the time. I know almost nothing about PHP. Java has gotten frustrating because it's not C#.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Language advice?

Ok, geeky friends....

I want to freshen up some of the web-based tools that I use on my home machine and commercial web server, both of which are Linux based. Historically, I've used perl, but the last few years I've been doing a lot of C# development at work and I have to admit --- it's a great language and I find the idea of going back to perl unappetizing.

Underlying technologies that I want to use are MySQL, XML/XSLT, and Apache.

So I'm consdering my options. I've toyed with mono but I'm not convinced that it's got enough of the class libraries that I've gotten used to with the C# CRL. (In particular, I'm worried about the XML, XSLT, and OLE/ODBC stuff.) I've wanted to learn Python for years but never taken the time. I know almost nothing about PHP. Java has gotten frustrating because it's not C#.

Thoughts? Suggestions?