There's a lot of new interest in probabilistic programming languages, which is what Noah et. al. have developed. See http://probabilistic-programming.org/wiki/N

There's a lot of new interest in probabilistic programming languages, which is what Noah et. al. have developed. See http://probabilistic-programming.org/wiki/NIPS*2008_Workshop http://probabilistic-programming.org/wiki/NIPS*2008_Workshop for a workshop from about a year ago that explored the space. Probabilistic programming languages enable you to express concepts such as recursion and universal quantification in a way that Pearl's graphs don't easily allow.