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> Eventually the scientists went so far as to develop an in-house programming language for their models rather than settle for a numbercentric option such as AS

> Eventually the scientists went so far as to develop an in-house programming language for their models rather than settle for a numbercentric option such as ASCII, which was popular at the time.

keyle 10y ago
That was a nice eye roll on that line. Sadly the whole article was pretty pointless. It was one of those wowsa wow wow wow woop woop article, by the end of it you know nothing more than they take speculative risks on short/medium term using futures. Which any CFD trader does.
fowkswe 10y ago
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seibelj 10y ago
I've been waiting my whole life for a computer that lacks number-centricity!
01d3 10y ago
Fools! ASCII isn't numbercentric, it has far more letters than numbers!
davidnc 10y ago
I'm curious to know what the original statement was that got mangled into this. Maybe the author heard ASCII instead of C? Not sure where numbercentric would come in, though.