[FWP] Perl gender?

[Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>]

If this isn't fun enough for this list I'm sure I'll hear about it :-)

I found myself at a point in writing a book where I wanted to describe Perl 
with a specific gender pronoun ('he' or 'she').  Never mind why; it's a 
long story.  But naturally I wondered which one it should be.  So I thought 
I would put it to a vote (although any response from Larry Wall will be 
weighted greater than all the other votes put together, just so you know :-).

Do you think of Perl as male or female (and if it hasn't occurred to you 
before - as it hadn't to me - then you may deliver a snap 
judgement).  Ingenious justifications welcome.  I present some of my own 
below (and some of the most incendiary flame bait I've ever posted).

Arguments for male:

Oriented towards power tools.
Chafes at the idea of natural limits.
Violent vocabulary: bind, chop, die, kill, tie, ...

Arguments for female:

Often figures out what you meant even when you said something else.
Favors multiple ways of saying the same thing.
Disposed toward poetry.


--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies


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