Personally because it's quick. Sometimes I just need to automate some set of CLI commands... Of course sometimes things evolve and it's time to replace the scri

Personally because it's quick. Sometimes I just need to automate some set of CLI commands... Of course sometimes things evolve and it's time to replace the script with something more easy to handle at the new scale, but for simple stuff, meaning something that can fit a single page or two they are far quicker. BTW in a broad topic: a classic system with a user-programming language as the topmost human computer automation/interface is obviously better, but we have had such systems in the past and commercial reasons have push them to oblivion so...