dtolpin

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   by dtolpin 8y ago

   Anglican is a CPS state monad. Clojure functions are automatically lifted into the monad, but to maintain fast execution of Anglican code, Clojure functions must be declared as such to Anglican. A language with native support of continuatio
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   by dtolpin 8y ago

   Another book from the same source: http://dippl.org/
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   by dtolpin 8y ago

   One advantage of Clojure compared to Common Lisp is very well implemented parallelism and corresponding functional data structures. Something which is hard to find for Common Lisp implementations.
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   by dtolpin 8y ago

   All of Anglican is macro-compiled into CPS-ed Clojure: https://bitbucket.org/probprog/anglican/src/master/src/angli...
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   by dtolpin 8y ago

   "Embedded DSL" vs "Separate" is a matter of use of words. Anglican is macro-compiled inside Clojure into Clojure. If you like to call it a DSL, call it a DSL. An important design feature is that it is 'anti-DSL&#x27
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   by dtolpin 8y ago

   I am the author of the most of current Anglican code base. Anglican's name indeed comes from the Church of England, Church being the name of an influential probabilistic programming language https://cocolab.stanford.edu&#x2