For me, scripts are something I write quickly, don't put a lot of thought into, don't care if they have weird failure cases. More like a one-off thing. If a "

For me, scripts are something I write quickly, don't put a lot of thought into, don't care if they have weird failure cases. More like a one-off thing. If a "script" is critical, has to handle lots of error conditions, has to always have reasonable behavior, and is part of any kind of production setup, then it becomes more like programming.