The big change since I started, and I've started programming in 1957, is that now nobody can understand programs. Things have just gotten so complicated because, I'd like to say, things have advanced by evolution and not by intelligent design. And then what's still the same or at least echoes? "I'm sort of amazed that there hasn't been an extinction-level event"
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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