now I'm working on building a website in one of those scripting languages that apparently don't count as programming
The article didn't claim that scripting languages don't count as programming. Despite the heading "scripting isn't programming", it doesn't even really claim that scripting isn't programming: it claims that if you switch from shell scripting language to a compiled language, but you still do most of the stuff by spawning child processes, you're most likely using the wrong tool for the job.
Forgive me for countering hyperbole with hyperbole. She did baldly say in the main content of her article "Scripting isn't programming". It's not a hyperbolic title, it's in the body of the article. She also doesn't counter that assertion. The article is hyperbolic through and through, and I don't care to argue its finer semantic points since the original article was neither nuanced nor subtle.
The article didn't claim that scripting languages don't count as programming. Despite the heading "scripting isn't programming", it doesn't even really claim that scripting isn't programming: it claims that if you switch from shell scripting language to a compiled language, but you still do most of the stuff by spawning child processes, you're most likely using the wrong tool for the job.