If you want to understand something, you've got to write it. Well, it has to be usable without the code. So how you can do that informally? Well, by writing it down in mathematics or in language like TLA plus. And when you write it, you should be able to see whether what you're doing is making sense.
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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