*login in perl? (was Re: Cloginvs dollar signs)

[Andrew Fort]

'john heasley' wrote:

>[ i happened across this while googling for answers...
>
>  After a duel with TCL, I return triumphant (but seriously injured; I took a
>  blow to the head that may never heal...).
>	- Daniel Jacobowitz
>]
>  
>

and from the same post,

"
A friend of mine got so fed up with TCL that he rewrote DejaGNU in Perl, 
which he's planning to publish in the next couple of weeks. I can see why.
 - Daniel Jacobowitz
"

Has there been much discussion of rewriting *logins in perl?  If so, is 
the main hurdle you see porting the -s functionality?

-afort