Why do you want to hide the object orientation from the runner scripts? If that's the most natural interface to your application, why mask it?

In general it's a good idea to have some API and expose it to the outside world, but I don't see the benefit of having wrapper subs

The ScriptRunner contains lots of duplicate code that you should remove (at least if you stay with your current approach): 

# instead of
#sub value
#{
#    my ( $self ) = ScriptRunner->new();
#    return $self->{'driver'}->value;
#}

sub make_wrapper {
    my $name = shift;
    return sub {
        ScriptRunner->new()->{'driver}->$name(@_);
    }
}

*value         = make_wrapper('value');
*reset_counter = make_wrapper('reset_counter);
...
# (untested)

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You could also use autoloading (see perlsub, section "Autoloading") to achieve the same thing.

In reply to Re: On the merits of implementing a script running application by moritz
in thread On the merits of implementing a script running application by BaldManTom

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