>>139
Yeah, agreed. I was going to post, "But hey, CVSup is written in Modula-2", but it turns out that's Modula-3. (http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#notc)

>>138
I don't understand your "buried in fluff" complaint. Explain?

Ignoring that one, what about Lua (http://www.lua.org/)? It's simple, approachable, and has real-world use as an embedded scripting language.