Greetings, Dave!

There is indeed a basic-of-sorts, a scripting language called LUA thats already been ported to the ESP8266.

Makes things much easier, and other folks have developed IDEs to be able to upload/load LUA files directly on the module.

In fact LUA is getting so popular, they have a separate sub-form for LUA at www.esp8266.com

If this generates more interest, I'll post all the LUA related URLs in my record.

Regards,

Anand