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

Singapore's Prime Minister prefers C++: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/prime...

> 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

>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...