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History
TLA$^+$ stands for Three Letter acronym. It was invented by Leslie Lamport, who notably invented \LaTeX. TLA+ is a language for writing and checking specifications. It helps to work on system designs, and to show if a system meets specifications.
There is a nice learntla website set up by the community, mostly by Hillel Wayne
TLA stands for 'Temporal Logic of Actions'. It's a formal specification language.
TLA mainly works with a tool called TLC, which is a model checker. TLC is exhaustive, and will check every possible case.
What does TLA+ do, more specifically?
Acts on Designs!
TLA+