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In PHP and some other scripting languages have the $var syntax while Java and other languages we can do just var.
Is there any theory behind it? Does it help them to parse. If not why would they choose to tack on an extra character in front?
It prevents variable names conflicting with language keywords, and allows them to be interpolated in strings.