You mentioned that you were concerned about writing maintainable code, so be careful: an in-line Perl system can be a problem, in the same way that PHP/JSP/ASP can. If you aren't careful, you'll end up with spaghetti code.

For this reason alone I have now taken Apache::ASP off my list along with Mason and Embperl. In my opinion, based on the maintenance problems of some of my earlier code, a clear and distinct separation of logic and presentation is essential. Well, for me it is anyway!

jdtoronto