Introducing Bean Machine

The final part of my Life series is still in the works but I need to interrupt that series with some exciting news. I will likely do a whole series on Bean Machine later on this autumn, but for today let me just give you the brief overview should you not want to go through the paper. As the paper's title says, Bean Machine is a Probabilistic Programming Language (PPL). For a detailed introduction to PPLs you should read my "Fixing Random" series, where I show how we could greatly improve support for analysis of randomness in .NET by both adding types to the base class library and by adding language features to a language like C#. If you don't want to read that 40 post introduction, here's the TLDR.