in this specific case, it's a bit more than 'just because you can'. Maybe it can be more like 'just because you don't want to have bugs popping around when you

in this specific case, it's a bit more than 'just because you can'. Maybe it can be more like 'just because you don't want to have bugs popping around when you add new servers to your infrastructure because you forgot to setup a cronjob' also, other languages usually offer the same kind of stuff - like Java EE's cron-like mechanisms, for instance (with or without DSLs)..