On: Ask HN: Why did Python win?

[JAlexoid]

Perl being easier to use is a joke... Ruby suffers the same issue as Perl does - you can do the same thing a million different ways, that's too many.

[zzzeek → JAlexoid]

a million different ways, but all with liberal use of human-unfriendly symbols like dollar signs, at signs, pound signs, etc.