Note that this requires web server restarts to change the logic, rather than just editing the pages.
Also note that, if you're not in a very high load environment, Apache::Reload can be used to deal with this issue. (Granted, you may be in such an environment, but even if you are the original poster may not.)
To respond directly to the original poster: I see nothing in your requirements that Embperl cannot handle, and the "put all your logic in modules" method works well enough with Embperl.
On one of my sites, I've abstracted a few pieces of common display, authentication, and file upload logic into a module, but otherwise everything is in the pages. The modules capture a few variables (%fdat, %http_header_out) from the calling package into lexical variables, then export methods into the calling package with the standard Exporter module. This setup worked fine without Apache::Reload, but with the module it's ridiculously easy to handle updates.
You can grab Apache::Reload from your favorite CPAN mirror. It's a pure-Perl module, with configuration directives inserted into your httpd.conf file.
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