Yup, still using perl mode happily. Way less busy than cperl-mode, I had some issues with indentation in cperl-mode (probably fixable, but meh), and it does all I really need.
YMMV, but I like it still
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Yeah, making cperl-mode less busy is part of the exercise. Of course, I would love to learn about Perl constructs which cause problems in cperl-mode: At some (distant) point in time, M-x perl-mode will be implemented using the code of cperl-mode.el, so as part of the process such bugs should be eliminated.