Do you normally make yourself feel better by making fun of other people? So what if a single person asked for the script? Security doesn't imply programming.

I suppose we could be equally condescending to Jason for not being able to write it himself, or to you for having to write a script for something that's already a common tool.

This really has nothing to do with Perl. C or other languages can do the task equally well. Perl shows none of its strengths in your example. You simply use a function defined in a library.

I think you're an embarrasment to Perl in the same way you consider your victim an embarrasment to his company. It seems to me that you are just a mean person. Even if you did think he was as you say, that's still no reason for him to be the butt of your jokes, or a post here gloating over it.