On: The Anglican Probabilistic Programming System

[chris_wot]

What's with the name?

[xopher → chris_wot]

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.

[chris_wot → xopher]

That's so obscure, I love it! Kind of fits with the programming paradigm (ducks).

[cl42 → chris_wot]

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? :)

[Expeditus419 → chris_wot]

My Mom would love the name. Clever.