Just a pointer, in the time it takes you to type @myArray or $myCounter, you could just as easily type my @array or my $counter

You do enjoy the benifits of lexically binded variables, don't you?

Also, you can save some typing with:

my @array = qw(0 0 0 0 0); # well, not much on this one, but . . .
my @array = (0)x5;         # pure evil
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and use Perl for loops like Perl, not like C!

for (0..$#array) {
    print $array[$_],',';
}
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jeff

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