>the whole thing just drips with an insecurity complex over perl. JAPH to Pythonista convert here. I think it definitely is a reaction to Perl, but the "insecu

>the whole thing just drips with an insecurity complex over perl. JAPH to Pythonista convert here. I think it definitely is a reaction to Perl, but the "insecurity complex" phrasing has its own insecurity complex peeking out. The Zen dates from 2004, when the writing was on the wall for Perl. (That writing on the wall was in Ruby, Python, and PHP.) Very little to feel insecure about by then. Also, beauty and simplicity are hardly meek values, but I understand the subjectivity. To each his own.