I hope he takes your comment to heart. Here is the listing for Python:
Python: /pi:´thon/
In the words of its author, “the other scripting language” (other than Perl, that is). Python's design is notably clean, elegant, and well thought through; it tends to attract the sort of programmers who find Perl grubby and exiguous. Some people revolt at its use of whitespace to define logical structure by indentation, objecting that this harks back to the horrible old fixed-field languages of the 1960s. Python's relationship with Perl is rather like the BSD community's relationship to Linux — it's the smaller party in a (usually friendly) rivalry, but the average quality of its developers is generally conceded to be rather higher than in the larger community it competes with. There's a Python resource page at http://www.python.org. See also Guido, BDFL.
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It's also kind of funny, because around the same time he predicted that Linux would take over from FreeBSD despite the difference between average skill level that he claimed to have identified.
ESR's an odd guy, and he got odder after the success of the "Cathedral and the Bazaar" essay...
There have been a lot of complaints about him abusing the jargon file, e.g. this slashdot story:
ESR Recasts Jargon File in Own Image
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That is exactly why I sent the email. Both entries are biased and if they are then what other entries have had a slant put on them?
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