Actually, Perl is many different Satans, depending on the particular stylistic quirks of the programmer in question.

TMTOWTDI: There's more than one way to damn it!

Not so much with the usual coding standards (see "Best Practices" book etc).

IMHO, it's well deserved. Start by stop having those $, @, % identifiers for variables and then we 'll talk again about how many more daemons you need to impale.

Sigils are what make Perl standout, in syntax and behaviour, to (most) other languages so it would be silly to get rid of them!

i.e. it's a differentiator to what is or isn't Perl.