this just an idea that maybe can improve blender in many ways, before i continue i must warn you about my bad english 
but i tried my best to explain it.
Python is great language, everything recently implement python as their scripting language, but there is couple things that could be improve with UnderC binding.
this couple things exist when we use Python under Blender:
- using Python, we must make special code to communicate with Blender C function.
- Python script get limited access to Blender Internal function, like GUI, etc.
- Python script must be re-code to C before can be integrated to Blender source code.
- Python speed can’t match up C (MakeHuman team reason change from python to C++)
UnderC is a fast C++ interpreter which implements a fair subset of the ISO standard. It does templates and exceptions, and a ‘pocket’ version of the standard library, complete with algorithms and containers. It is very easy to import shared libraries, including C++ classes.
UnderC is available under the GPL for Windows and Linux.
for complete information about UnderC check this site:
http://home.mweb.co.za/sd/sdonovan/underc.html
http://home.mweb.co.za/sd/sdonovan/faq.htm
i have been tried to benchmark UnderC and Blender Python using this code:
for UnderC:
#include "stdio.h"
#include "time.h"
int main()
{
double elapsedTime;
clock_t stopTime;
clock_t startTime = clock();
double X = 0.5;
for(int i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
X = 1 + X * X;
stopTime = clock();
elapsedTime = (stopTime - startTime) / (CLOCKS_PER_SEC / (double) 1000.0);
printf("Elapsed time: %1.0f ms
", elapsedTime);
return 0;
}
for Blender Python:
import Blender
import sys
import time
starttime = time.clock()
X = 0.5
for i in xrange(10000000):
X = 1 + X*X
stoptime = time.clock()
elapsedtime = stoptime - starttime * 1000
print "Elapsed time:", elapsedtime
and the results is 5 ms for UnderC and 13000 ms for Blender Python
i’m not a Python coder so maybe my benchmark function was wrong, please correct me
for the benchmark code i got from this thread
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread21516.html
and this link for time count code
http://www.osnews.com/story.php/5602/Nine-Language-Performance-Round-up-Benchmarking-Math-and-File-IO/page1/
so the idea is not to remove Python binding but to add UnderC binding, this will give alternative to scripter and which one they prefer to use depend the requirement of the script that they code.
maybe more competent Blender coder can help with this idea, is the UnderC can really benefit Blender or not? because i only Blender user with rusty C skill that have no idea about language binding to Blender 
just dream someday maybe Blender can have MEL or MaxScript emulator :rolleyes: