Actually I remember that one time Lee Hsien Loong (LKY's eldest boy, and current PM of 🇸🇬, okay, Majulah Singapura, can have dynasty no trouble liddat) posted that answer to that programming question and everyone was like, oooh ahhh what a statesman, so clever he, know C++ liddat fuyoo
And I'm like, bhai. I'd be more impressed if he demonstrated some PMP-level shit, because coding you can learn in days.
Actually if his answer was in Lisp I'd be impressed.