I don't mind much coding in C, but it be extremely nice to be able to do this in say javascript or especially python! I mean isn't that the purpose of having a scripting language? To abstract away to dirty guts of the engine so that actually programming the game can be done in a much more cleaner and dynamic way. My vote for python, which is relatively simple as a google search says http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8497
Would be neat if scheme was an option but it's not well known enough probably