Change is good (Score 0)

I never really thought about how valuable perl really is. I use it constantly. I use it based on the syntactic rules set fourth in the cammel book. I never considered evaluating changes to the language

Sounds to me like you haven't tried to do anything very hard with it. People who tackle large jobs in any language tend to find things that could be improved about it, things that would make working with it more fun and easier. Why should Perl be any different?