The programming talent myth

> Also, "we need to have at least one person who understands Unicode", he said to laughter.

I am not laughing.

Just to give me some sense, how many people here /actually/ thought Jacob Kaplan-Moss was a "rock star" or "ninja" programmer before this speech ? My impression of Django was much like for Tapestry, or any of dozens of other such frameworks. They're better than nothing, but not always much better. That's some pretty faint praise.