Computer people and programmers are 'really hung up on languages,' inventing languages and believing they improve thinking, but for understanding and reasoning about systems, mathematics beats any programming language.
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Leslie LamportEvidence Quote
“computer people and computer scientists and programmers are really hung up on languages... for understanding you know you can't beat math”
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Turing Award Winner: Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working With Dijkstra | Leslie Lamport— Ryan PetermanCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:17:50 PM
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