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[Average Software]

With the exception of Lisp, interpreted languages came much later.

Interpreted languages have been around almost as long as compiled languages.  They aren't a recent phenomenon, nor did they come "much later."  Their performance simply hasn't been truly viable until hardware advanced to the point where it could negate most of the overhead of interpretation.

To be truly pedantic, there is no such thing as an interpreted language anyway.  It's a question of implementation.  There are C and C++ interpreters in existence, for example.  Likewise there are Java compilers that output native code.

[Impossible]

It really seems like you should integrate lua and write all of your game code in lua. Lua tables work similar to your global unordered maps, and you get the ability to execute arbitrary code from a string.

[Massena]

So how would I go about using Lua for my game code? Which part of the program should be C++? Just the loading, initializing and blitting?

edit: I replaced my maps with tr1's unordered_maps and everything was A-OK

edit2: Ah forget it. The moment I started making anything game-like and went out of my theoretical bubble I realized "I'm gonna need arrays, and vectors" and that I'd end up with more maps than I can point a pointer at. (pun totally great hahahalol)
Still interested in using Lua or maybe python, though, will look into that.