[nextos]

> Statistics for Programmers

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.

Incidentally, that's one of my major complaints about Lisp these days. Lisp-Stat started dying in the early 2000s and completely faded away long ago. I read PCL when it was published a decade ago and I fondly remember how enthusiastic I became about Lisp.

I have used Clojure extensively, but the ecosystem for doing math and statistics is quite reduced. The same applies to CL and Scheme. I wish I could use one Lisp for most tasks.

[JadeNB]

> > 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?

[disgruntledphd2]

R is about as close as it gets (it is quite lispy underneath all the C-like syntax).

[pjmlp]

Julia and Wolfram as well.