[autismo]

What bothers me most about this language isn't the orphaned braces, or the case sensitive keywords or any of the other quirky decisions.

What bothers me most is the monkey mascot. What relevance does a monkey have to this programming language? Is the idea that it's so simple a monkey could do it? Is the monkey Zimbu? It isn't explained anywhere, and I'm betting it's just some random animal they chose without any thought because it's cute.

At least the Go gopher makes a little bit of sense (GOpher). This monkey seems like a completely nonsensical choice though.

[isxek]

What relevance does a monkey have to this programming language? Is the idea that it's so simple a monkey could do it?

Possibly:

http://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=Zimbu+The+Monkey