> > At one point he mentioned writing a book to the effect of Statistics for Programmers, which sounds intriguing to me. > Why intriguing? The most general fam

> > At one point he mentioned writing a book to the effect of Statistics for Programmers, which sounds intriguing to me. > Why intriguing? The most general family of distributions can only be expressed with a programming language, so there are certainly many connections between both fields. That seems to be an argument for why it is intriguing. Were you perhaps arguing that it wasn't surprising?