That might explain why Singapore is surprisingly strong in CS. For example in the last olympiad (IOI) they managed to get 3 gold and 1 silver medals despite their relatively small population size: https://stats.ioinformatics.org/results/2021
causal link is very tenuous here. i dont think he's ever been involved in the education system and this code is pretty much the only code related thing we've seen out of him since he got his CS degree in 1974