CUFP Dominus In a thread in <tt>comp.lang.perl.misc</tt> titled "So what do YOU use Perl for?", Gwyn Judd suggested: <blockquote> I use it to impress women. </blockquote> Around 1993 or 1994 I started dating a woman who was a quilter. After seeing a lot of quilts and pictures of quilts, it seemed to me that most quilters stuck to a few traditional quilt blocks and that there might be a lot of quilt blocks that were rarely used. I wrote [http://www.plover.com/~mjd/misc/quilt/code/|a suite of Perl programs] to generate all the quilt blocks of a certain type (sixteen-patch half-square triangles with 90-degree rotational symmetry) and I printed out [http://www.plover.com/~mjd/misc/quilt/composites/bindexs.jpg|the result]. I was delighted, because the results confirmed my suspicion: There are a lot of excellent but rarely-seen quilt blocks. I was even more delighted when we got married, and she made the program output into [http://www.plover.com/~mjd/misc/quilt/quilt/|a real quilt] and gave it to me as a wedding present. She must have been impressed.