https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anyhBdt79Cs
Pretty much all of this critique applies squarely to the Zen of Python.
Pretty much all of this critique applies squarely to the Zen of Python.
But the Zen of Python is an absolutely great vision statement, that positioned the language very clearly in comparison to the ones that existed at the time, and was good enough to guide its development for more than a decade.
Still, yeah, you can negate half of those things and also arrive at a good language.