You should probably choose an interpreted language that's easier to embed than perl, unless you specially need perl for some reason.

Here are some options. Python is said to be easy to embed, but I've never really looked at it, so I don't know. Ruby is easy to embed, but its API documentation is not nearly complete. Lua is also easy to embed, and its documentation is quite comprehensive. You need to take a mind leap to understand how the lua api functions work (namely that you can never manipulate pointers to lua objects directly), but the irc community is eager to help. MzScheme has a complete api documentation, but the interpreted language itself you might not like. There are lots of other interpreters I didn't even mention, so google or something if you like none of these.

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