I wrote a very short demo for you. This only uses basic things in the Tk module which should already be installed in your Perl installation.

Click around and you will see what this does (drop down menus that give a snarky comment that this doesn't work!)

This is an incredibly short amount of code for a GUI!!!!

Many GUI "builders" spew out hundreds if not thousands of lines of code. Tk can be just "hand coded", like I did below. You will have to learn about the various "geometry managers", most important of which is pack() and what a "frame" is. These placement (geometry) gizmos are basic to all GUI things, you just need to know the rules to use this. There are a number of good books on Perl Tk to get you started.

BUT YES! Perl can do some very sophisticated GUI stuff!!!

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Tk;

#file tkdemo.pl 11 aug 2009 

# $mw is normally the variable name for "MainWindow"

my $mw = MainWindow->new;
$mw->configure(-title=> "Hacking...");
$mw->geometry("400x100+0+0");

my $menu_f = $mw->Frame()->pack(-side=>'top',-fill=>'x');
my $menu_file = $menu_f->Menubutton
                    (-text=>'File',-tearoff=>'false')
                    ->pack(-side=>'left');
my $menu_help  = $menu_f->Menubutton
                    (-text=>'Help',
                     -tearoff=>'false',
                    )->pack(-side=>'left');
  
$menu_file->command(-label=>'Open',
            -command=> \&you_wish);
$menu_help->command(-label=>'Help??!!!',
            -command=> \&you_wish);        
            
sub you_wish
{
  $mw->messageBox
      ( 
        -title => "Hacking...",
        -message => "You wished that this option worked!!!", 
         -type => 'Ok'
      );
}

#This starts the GUI "waiting for event loop"
MainLoop();
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