Let me tell you something about Perl ... have you tried the Dancer module ? http://dancer.sukria.net/ I like it very very very much. It seems to be straigh-to-the-point web programming. Use it :)
I'm very pleased to read that :) Indeed, I'm part of those who beleive that Perl can be modern and can be a very good language for web development. Dancer is one example, but not the only one. See Plack and Catalyst.