SnoopJ, 3 months ago

@erictleung @hugovk the Zen was always meant to be taken as a bit humorous anyway (cf. the missing 20th principle), so this ROT-13 adds to the joke, but at some point it mutated into something more like "dogma"

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-June/001951.html

hugovk, 3 months ago

@SnoopJ @erictleung 21 years ago someone pushed a "Simple is better than complex" commit to tidy it up a bit, but was asked to revert it the same day :) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d310f13cd2c321f0cca8429f611546c7888ae561