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Scripting use is by definition a less demanding type of requirement than being able to write entire apps.

I wrote a fairly complete "C" subset as a scripting language for a programmable regression test tool (self-contained test-cases able to evaluate the test-case responses). To make it more friendly I made it dynamically typed (so no need to declare variables) and also added XMLPath syntax support as a type of built-in l-value since the requests/responses it was dealing with were XML/JSON, and this meant you could access any elements of the test request/response(s) as if they were just variables.

Anyhow, "C" may not be what comes to mind for a scripting language, but targeting a group of developers who knew C/C++, and with these minor language tweaks made it very simple to use. My point is that for this type of application I'm not sure that the choice of language makes a huge difference - choose something your target audience is comfortable with, and extend in DSL fashion to make it tightly integrated.