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It's not fun sir. What's the point of those $$$ mark for variables ? Make no sense at all.

Easy adoption for all levels of programmers is what make it work for enterprise applications now.

For one thing, it makes the distinction between language keywords and variables clear - no problems in using `$switch` or `$var`, and even more important, the core devs don't have to take as much care when developing new language features. Not that I usually use variable names like these, but it quickly becomes automatic to use a dollar sign.

Hey, here’s someone who never saw Perl and doesn’t know how PHP evolved.

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