I'm not sure, perl/whatever for commands and quests/scripts could be easier for some, harder for others. There is also the question os effciency and maintabililty.
--Adds to the list of things to discuss...but sleep for now.
(Note: I'm not exactly sure the usefulness of things such as the babelfish or whatever, however if we had a fullfledged scripting language we would not need to make additions to our language whenever we needed something.)
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