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I've done lots of shell and Perl, and you can make them as reliable and bulletproof as any other option.
Do lots of scripts ignore return codes, lack retry logic, sanity checks, etc? Sure, but so do lots of applications written in compiled languages.
"Scripting" isn't really the issue.
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I've done lots of shell and Perl, and you can make them as reliable and bulletproof as any other option.
Do lots of scripts ignore return codes, lack retry logic, sanity checks, etc? Sure, but so do lots of applications written in compiled languages.
"Scripting" isn't really the issue.