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I was attempting to contrast the usefulness of sigils vs static typing. While they're different things the do serve similar purposes. They restrict a thing so one can reason about it. At a meta level they do similar things.

The reason I don't like Perl's sigils is that my head is not good at inferring meaning from something like a $ or % or \%. I prefer they way it's done in other languages where you have to call a copy or deep copy function. Not everyone would agree with that preference.

I think dynamic languages have their place. I'm personally more comfortable with the training wheels on in a statically typed language. But there are times where using a statically typed language is going to arrive at an overengineered solution. There are developers that can do amazing things in dynamic languages because they're good at catching their own errors and can leverage the flexibility of dynamic typing to their benefit.