I want to know about the moment of inspiration. The reason it's called the bakery algorithm is when I was a kid, it was a bakery. There was no moment other than perhaps that moment that brought back the memory of that bakery. You first get the obvious problem with what happens if two people chose the same number. And then in that case you serve people in the order of the alphabetical order of their names.
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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