Baidu Tech Salon

Aug 26, 2014 · Fundamentals

Wang Xiaobo: The Novelist Who Was Also a Pioneering Chinese Programmer

Wang Xiaobo, famed Chinese novelist, secretly pioneered early 1990s Chinese computing by teaching himself FORTRAN, assembly and C to build Chinese text editors and input methods, documenting his technical evolution in letters before ultimately choosing literary creation over programming, illustrating a unique blend of art and technology.