Thinking outside the box of code (Interview)

Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist & mathematician who won ACM’s Turing Award in 2013 for his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems. He also created LaTeX and TLA+, a high-level language for “writing down the ideas that go into the program before you do any coding.”

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Featuring:

• Leslie Lamport – Website
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Leslie Lamport - A.M. Turing Award Laureate
• The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math - YouTube
• TLA+ Helps Programmers Squash Bugs Before Coding - IEEE Spectrum
  The TLA+ Home Page

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