"Will the below code be the future of Perl?"

Ahhh I see you have been looking at Kwiki, very good :-)

  #!/usr/bin/perl -w
  use CGI::Kwiki;
  CGI::Kwiki::run_cgi();
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I think you need to work harder at building your skills rather than worrying about them atrophying, even with a great application like Kwiki there are always extensions and Enhancements which can be written such as my own BlogarchivePlugin.