> Modifying your core parser at runtime though, who would do such a thing? Perl? Its numerous language extensions allowed it to stay competitive for such a lo

> Modifying your core parser at runtime though, who would do such a thing? Perl? Its numerous language extensions allowed it to stay competitive for such a long time. Every time someone says "language X can do Y but Perl doesn't have that syntax", a new CPAN module is born to amend the shortcoming.