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Whoever said that specific quote, it is a paraphrase of a point that Alan Kay has been making since the late 1970s. His speeches, in which he argued in favor of
by lkrubner 4y ago
Whoever said that specific quote, it is a paraphrase of a point that Alan Kay has been making since the late 1970s. His speeches, in which he argued in favor of SmallTalk and dynamic program, make the point over and over again. I believe he said almost exactly the words you are quoting.
- ethbr0 4y agoThat was my paraphrase. From fuzzy memory, don't think it was Alan Kay, but I'm sure the approach is common with that crowd. The only other clue I have is that it was apparently someone who was super productive and wrote a ton of the early common Unix tools.