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Not exactly one to one, but I feel like Leslie Lamport kind of fits into that?

Lamport has touched a ton of aspects of computer science and made many contributions, but manages to still explain things in a clear, easy-to-understand manner. I feel like his talks are just as fun to watch as they are educational, and I think his papers are generally very approachable while still being pretty information-dense.



I would love to see him write a book, or even just publish a nice compendium of his papers ala Donald Knuth's Collected Papers series (with light editing/updating, background info, commentary, etc.) I think that would truly be a pleasure to read.


I would too, though I should point out that I think all of Lamport's papers and books are free on his website: http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html?from=https:/...

Some of them even have some basic background information if you click the link (e.g. Arbiter-Free Synchronization).




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