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I came across this recently:

> Barry Warsaw, one of the core Python developers, once said that it frustrated him that "The Zen of Python" (PEP 20) is used as a style guide for Python code, since it was originally written as a poem about Python's internal design. [0]

I did a quick search for a little more background but didn't find anything. I'd be curious to hear more.

[0]: https://github.com/amontalenti/elements-of-python-style#a-li...

I always thought that was mocking with Perl, and nothing else.

Then my analysis that it is a total joke is correct ;)

Looks like so.

Almost all the lines on the Zen of Python are inversion of the Perl guidelines. Some with the exact same phrasing, just with the antonyms of the original.

I think this needs to be the responsibility of things like PEP rather than the actual language. Otherwise you break old code every time you find a better way.