That's a pretty perl script. Well done.
The kind of people who use perl like this are generally much more advanced users of perl than the developers of the clumsy cgi's that might have formed your first impressions of perl.
Dancer, Moose, DBIx::Class (a bit more advanced), Plack/PSGI, etc etc. Not to mention the language changes they've made with 5.10/5.12/5.14/etc (I'm in love with the defined-or operator).
Argh. FormMail. FormMail. Its a near-PTSD-like flashback.