Back in the 80s I wrote a 500-line program analysis tool in Awk. One day the woman I was going out with handed me a printout I had left at her place, saying so

Back in the 80s I wrote a 500-line program analysis tool in Awk. One day the woman I was going out with handed me a printout I had left at her place, saying something along the lines of "here's your awk code". She wasn't a programmer so I was stunned that she knew it was Awk, and very impressed too. Years later I ran into Brian Kernighan at a conference and told him the story, ending it with "and that's when I knew she was the woman for me." He looked at me like I was nuts.