That string interpolation was one of my least favorite things about Perl. We tended to have "$"s in strings just because of the usecase, and I was so afraid of

That string interpolation was one of my least favorite things about Perl. We tended to have "$"s in strings just because of the usecase, and I was so afraid of that accidentally being interpolated that I never used double quotes, and instead used single quotes. Single quotes in Perl don't interpolate \n, so this "feature" made me write more code rather than less.