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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 2491 days ago
The article appears to be written by Singaporean prime minister Lee Hsien Loong's son, Li Hongyi.

http://theindependent.sg/li-hongyi-singapore-has-a-lot-of-pr...

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Now I'm wondering why the children romanized their surname as Li not Lee.

I came across this article: https://mothership.sg/2015/03/lee-hsien-yang-reveals-the-sto...

> I have taught my children never to mention or flaunt their relationship to their grandfather, that they needed to make their own way in the world only on their own merits and industry.

Singapore's older generations speak/spoke Chinese "dialects" like Hakka (Lee Kuan Yew's heritage), but there has been a massive government-led push towards standardizing on Mandarin as the one true Chinese. Hence Lee Hsien Loong's children all have their names officially romanized in Mandarin pinyin (Li), not Hakka (Lee). The underlying character, 李, is still the same.
Also, his brother Li Haoyi wrote Ammonite, a well-known Scala REPL.
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

> 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...