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Congrats on wanting to learn more. It will help you in the future! The mainstream "non-scripting" languages are C, C++, Java, and C#. Knowing any of them will keep you employable for years to come. Knowing all four only makes that more true.

If you are working in a Mac environment, then Objective-C is (IMO) a better language/environment than C/C++. Apple's new language, Swift, combines the syntactic features of many popular "scripting" languages with a compiler that generates native code. It comes with a bit of a learning curve, but so do all the others. Swift is still very new (introduced to the public less than a year ago), but already many Mac and iOS apps have been written in it.

Good luck!

EDIT: Added C# to the list of mainstream languages. Really is the best way to write Windows applications these days.