That 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

That 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.