Bad hackers copy, great hackers steal — Avi Bryant(2010.cusec.net) |
Bad hackers copy, great hackers steal — Avi Bryant(2010.cusec.net) |
* sun built java and self at the same time, self was an attempt to build a smalltalk that was more smalltalky than smalltalk, which ended up in that they made a very efficient dynamic method dispatch that was fast.
* There's no need for dynamically typed languages to be slow, because strongtalk has already solved that problem.
* The hotspot VM is actually the strongtalk vm, but crippled for fast dynamic dispatch because of the security model.
* There are now 3 really good and fast VMs for javascript making it very interesting.
* If a problem is hard, probably someone has a solution for it => research academic papers.
Still, the full quote more than makes up for it with the context, which is magnificent. Check this out:
One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. Chapman borrowed from Seneca; Shakespeare and Webster from Montaigne. The two great followers of Shakespeare, Webster and Tourneur, in their mature work do not borrow from him; he is too close to them to be of use to them in this way.
Then again, given the nature of the quote, it's entirely possible that he stole it from Eliot ^_^.
Thanks for digging this up! The full Eliot quote is indeed magnificent.