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> achievement of Lamport that probably was important to lot more people

Not necessarily. We all use distributed systems that have been influenced by Lamport. It's just that we don't even think about it when we do it.

Well, LaTeX is a (slight) improvement over TeX, which was written by D Knuth. I don't think that is what they would give a Turing Award to someone for.

Sure, but I saw the headline and though "Oh, the guy who wrote the LaTex book".

http://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Document-Preparation-System-2nd/...

I imagine that is how he is best known. I didn't even know he did LaTex, just the book.

Perhaps in terms of quantity, but to many he is the man who single-handedly brought order to distributed systems. I was surprised he had not won a Turing award yet.

You think, if Noam Chomsky would receive the Turing award, they'll talk about his other achievements?