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Re:The most remarkable legacy system I have seen by stevesimmons on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:43AM (#23820135)
Yes indeed. Quite a few of Athena's early developers were from GS.

I've not heard the term "twiddle scopes" before; in Athena it is "tweaking".

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Re:The most remarkable legacy system I have seen by FabHK on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:07AM (#23820922)
Come to think of it, it might have been a “diddle scope” (I’m not a native speaker).

For finance applications (risk) the whole concept works quite well, doesn’t it - combining the natural advantages of code and Excel.

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Re:The most remarkable legacy system I have seen by adamdonahue on Monday July 13, 2020 @11:41AM (#23821933)
It was indeed "diddle," not "twiddle." At BAML, it's a "tweak." Beacon Platform is another implementation by the same team (but with support for the public cloud, and many more advanced features, I believe, including tighter web integration). I think it uses the terminology "bind."

[Disclosure: I was part of the Quartz Core team in 2011/2012.]

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