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Also, his brother Li Haoyi wrote Ammonite, a well-known Scala REPL.

• lifeisstillgood 7y ago
  Sorry - the son of Singapore's Prime Minister is a Scala Hacker ... I keep on saying that Software Literacy is a real thing. And that this current generation of leaders are like Charlemagne - he was the first Holy Roman Emperor and the last who was illiterate. Interesting to see it in practise
  • mappu 7y ago
    Singapore's Prime Minister prefers C++: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/prime-minister-of-singapore-shares-his-c-code-for-sudoku-solver/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/prime...
    • typon 7y ago
      > One of them browsed a book and said, 'Here, read this.'" It was a textbook on the Haskell programming language, Lee recounted. "One day that will be my retirement reading." Even Singapore's PM has to put up with smug Haskell programmers
  • coldtea 7y ago
    >I keep on saying that Software Literacy is a real thing. And that this current generation of leaders are like Charlemagne - he was the first Holy Roman Emperor and the last who was illiterate. And probably he was the best of what followed as well, so this literacy thing didn't go as well, where power figures were concerned...