I haven't used CGI. Ever. And I'll tell you why. Bad Teachers.

If you look forward to having to debug the heck out of your HTML which is hardcoded into Perl or if you like having to re-debug all your HTML once you change the logic of your script, by all means, go for it!

On the other hand, if you want the module to keep track of closing tags and handling the headers and stuff like that, I'd suggest learning it now--before you are used to either way of working. In the long run, I'm guessing you'll be a lot happier.

(That's a "yes, use the module" if you can't tell.)