He doesn't place braces around single statement conditional/loop bodies. Would not vote for him. While pretty unexpected from a politician, he did graduate in Maths & CS at Trinity College. Senior Wrangler, no less.
If it's good enough for K&R it's good enough for me. And yes, I do sleep with my copy of "The C Programming Language" (Second Edition) under my pillow. ;)
I would say in the past this was unexpected. We cannot build a better future with bureaucrats and lawyers as it was proven several times. I am hoping that going forward means we have more practical politicians who actually have understanding of different domains outside of law and politics.
I have it on good authority that Boris Johnson was viva'd at the end of his classics degree – implying he was on the first/2:1 boundary – and graduated with a 2:1.
I would say it's a good thing when the size of ambitions matches the size of ones mouth.
He certainly inherited the size of the mouth of his father, and tried to imitate his tirades heavily 12 years ago when I lived there, but so far nothing really came out of it.
Sing in last 12 years: losing vestiges of its industry, and getting more, and more reliant on mainland money.
Not sure what it will look like, it's what leaders are for.
I would say 1 thing: Singapore is probably the only country in the world which actively tries to reduce population of millionaires, and rich 6 digit salary making expats on the populist notion that this tiny population which pays for itself n-fold in taxes is "stealing Singaporean jobs."
