Perl impresses men, too. I have finally converted my sh/ksh
scripting husband into a perl advocate. He was very resistant,
probably because he'd spent so many years building up a large repertoire
of sh tools, but the speed & power of perl have finally won him over. That, and
my merciless taunting.
"Nyah nyah, whose scripts are so slow?
Who requires 2 dozen lines of sh where 1 in perl would do?"