Perl is a scripting language, with which you can teach the computer to do anything that a human can do.  This frees the humans from the boring, repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on creative work.  But your manager doesn't want you to be creative, because he wants to fuck your coworker and is afraid of your relationship with her, even though you're both engaged to be married to different people -- you have a great WORKING relationship, and he wants to destroy that because he's a virgin.  Or bisexual.  Or jealous of (both of) your higher intelligence.