From a pure time savings perspective, this makes sense - naturally, links to XKCD are already popping up. From a maintenance perspective, a well-written script

From a pure time savings perspective, this makes sense - naturally, links to XKCD are already popping up. From a maintenance perspective, a well-written script can serve as a reference after the original task was long forgotten. A poor substitute for documentation, but when performing software archaeology on legacy systems you really need everything you can get.