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Re: teaching TLA




 
I have no disagreement with what FL writes.  However, saying "TLA+ is
> hard, but it's good for you" will needlessly scare away students. 

I apologize. I definitely don't want to frighten students. I swear I don't.

 Students need to learn to think of
> programs as specifying an initial states and next-state relations.
> they use describe a program in terms of an initial predicate and
> next-state relation.

Well that's true: this is the most important idea in TLA+.

-- 
FL