Download it!
I wrote a very rough GUI for my L-system during these days. This GUI can verify the strings of rules inputting by a user.
Some of the procedures may not validate variables perfectly. I am still working on that.
If you want to try it, please copy both scripts into the default MAYA script folder (../maya/7.0/scripts)
and copy the picture into the icon floder(../maya/7.0/prefs/icons).
Be careful, this is a work in progress.

This image rendered by mental ray.
This playblast shows how it moves in animation.

Using another rules can create different shapes with this script.