I am looking to make a free text game with fairly simple stats. I know that all programming languages can handle it functionally, my question is what programming language would you use? I have done programming and modding before, just not for a long time. Does Inform allow for stat checking, or is it purely a rules engine for natural language syntax interactive fiction? I'm open to suggestions about what programming language to use for a text+stats game with no graphics.

I would likely choose… whichever language I was most comfortable with, I imagine. (Which, right now, is Python.)