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Well, I can only say that my exposure to scheme (which is embedded into our MUD as a scripting language), lead me to read SICP - which in turn lead me to a better understanding of programming. While functional programming might seem alien at first, it also offers very interesting insights. In addition, there are two packages available that directly integrate with java so you can manipulate all java objects from within scheme without much additional code.
Python certainly is a good option, too, because it might look more familiar to those whose only "programming" experience is in mobprogs. By providing your builders with an adequate set of pre-coded functions I am sure it is a nice solution - and easily embeddable into C if that is the language you use for your MUD.
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