That he gave Javascript another chance says more about him than his dismissal of it four years ago.

However: The Python community is the frostiest on the planet. They're complete kneebiting buttheads to the last man.

I try hard not to conflate the merits of a programming language with its "community" (although sometimes that's damned hard to do), and it's made me a happier programmer.

(That said, I don't think I'd characterize the Python community as frosty or buttheads, either today or in 2004.)