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by troydj 3506 days ago
Yes, agreed! You'd think most of the CS people in a room listening to a Lamport lecture, of all things, would've at some point in their education taken a theory of computation or similar course. The notation Lamport was asking about is already taught by page 7 of chapter 0 in Sipser [1].

[1. https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Computation-Micha...]