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Re:The Anglican Probabilistic Programming System by chris_wot on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @04:30AM (#9537546)
What's with the name?
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Re:The Anglican Probabilistic Programming System by xopher on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @04:51AM (#9537611)
It is probably a joke as Anglicanism (Church of England, Episcopalian for Americans) is Via_media (i.e. the middle way between Catholicism and Protestant theologies), this is the middle path between Church and Venture.
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Re:The Anglican Probabilistic Programming System by chris_wot on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @06:39AM (#9537959)
That's so obscure, I love it! Kind of fits with the programming paradigm (ducks).
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Re:The Anglican Probabilistic Programming System by cl42 on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:20AM (#9538637)
One of the precursors to this type of programming was Church (http://projects.csail.mit.edu/church/wiki/Church), a Scheme-based probabilistic programming language.

I guess they're separating from said Church? :)

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Re:The Anglican Probabilistic Programming System by Expeditus419 on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:22AM (#9538656)
My Mom would love the name. Clever.
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