Pfp: a Probabilistic Functional Programming Library for Haskell (2006)
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A 2006 paper on PFP, a probabilistic functional programming library for Haskell, sparks discussion on its comparison to modern libraries and the evolution of Haskell.
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internet_points
4 months ago
how does it compare to https://monad-bayes.netlify.app/tutorials/ ?
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4 months ago
It's interesting to see how much Haskell has changed since this was written. It feels weird not having every Monad be an Applicative Functor. (Sidenote, I really like that you can define a Monad instance in Lean 4 and automatically get those. I guess Haskellers derive this stuff anyway, so it's not the biggest deal)
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