The key outcome, whether you call it scripting or programming, is functional, maintainable, and reasonably well-documented code. [ . . . . ] Good code is good code.
I’m with Chad on this one. And we’re not alone [1] [2]. And these are just the folks I have stumbled across without really looking.
The bottom line seems to be that it’s more important to understand the problem than the syntax of any given language.