It could entirely in someone's mind. People use brackets like {{{ }}} in C based languages all the time, when they have to deal with ((( ))) in Lisp suddenly th

It could entirely in someone's mind. People use brackets like {{{ }}} in C based languages all the time, when they have to deal with ((( ))) in Lisp suddenly they become unreadable. The thing is people want to spend little effort to learn something new, even if it can help them. Programming in the modern context is reduced to familiarity of syntax, and a small set of easily learnable and usable patterns. Problems related to bad programming, programming practices, bad program design, syntax bloat etc etc. Today exist with Python too. Python 3.x series is really how we do Perl stuff the Python way.