My manager also had a problem with my use of Perl. I came up with a small presentation to show the advantages of perl over the current languages we were using for our tools, KSH and C. That really impressed her. I also made references to the sites I mentioned above to show her the vast support network Perl's users, and authors had created. She was humbly convinced, and very impressed.

-- Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of defyance.