"The world's changed. The real world is you're not going to go back and start from scratch and redo everything," he says. "If you don't do this design right from the beginning, then every piece of the code you write is a patch ... You start out from day one with a mess."
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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