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		jdeisenberg on Oct 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MSR's Probabilistic Programming Language R2 Releas... The name seems to have been ideally chosen to cause confusion between it and the existing R language.

gwern on Oct 20, 2014 | [–]

It wouldn't surprise me if they had intended it as a homage/boast - both are statistics-related, after all.

dethstar on Oct 20, 2014 | [–]

Will there be a D2? will I be able to program in R2D2?

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