I would argue that “scripting” has to do with what you, as the programmer, do to deploy your code, and not what happens under the hood. If you can deploy by shi

I would argue that “scripting” has to do with what you, as the programmer, do to deploy your code, and not what happens under the hood. If you can deploy by shipping a single source code file, that’s a script. If there’s a build step, that’s not a script. Whether the underlying system compiles it, interprets it, sends it to MTurk for a human to evaluate by hand, or whatever doesn’t matter.