"pawn" is a simple, typeless, 32-bit scripting" language with a C-like syntax. Execution speed, stability, simplicity and a small footprint were essential design criterions for both the language and the interpreter/abstract machine that a pawn program runs on."
"The pawn language was designed as a exible language for manipulating objects in a host application. The tool set (compiler, abstract machine) were written so that they were easily extensible and would run on different software/hardware architectures."