Very similar story here; I barely write any Perl nowadays but am still very fond of it. I especially like the sigils - they serve in a way as a primitive type

Very similar story here; I barely write any Perl nowadays but am still very fond of it. I especially like the sigils - they serve in a way as a primitive type system and actually convey useful information when reading code. I suspect people who complain about them are the same who dislike strong typing. Interestingly, like you, nowadays I am very fond of Scala.