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Thinking outside the box of code (Changelog Interviews #552)

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The Importance of Concurrency

The way physics, science describes cars or the universe is in terms of its state. And that's the same way I describe a distributed system in Terms of Its State. So if you take a movie and you're not you add, you repeat frames since they don't represent any particular time scale. But when I write the specification, it satisfies it because my specification of the hour and minute clock allows frames where the same minute keeps repeating. The only formalism that I know of that people use that has that property is TLA+.

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