Python slithers into Wesnoth

Good points -- but I'm not sure who you're arguing with?

(Though of course everything old is new again -- I have heard that some cutting-edge true garbage collectors use reference counting because it allows them to optimize reference graph walking -- there cannot exist an unreachable cycle rooted at any object that has not recently had its reference count decremented to a non-zero value. I just like sharing that because while almost certainly useless to know, it's a *super* neat trick.)