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== Mumps == |
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Mumps is a programming language used primarily in medical and financial information systems. |
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The back end server for [http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=WorldVistA#VistA VistA] is written in Mumps. |
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Mumps is an old language. It was born in the days when a 16-bit address space was the state of the art in minicomputers. It shows its age. I has been called obsolete, ugly, ... It is not a fashionable language. |
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== Mumps is scary == |
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Most folks don't get past a negative initial impression and appreciate its strengths. The sample code at the bottom of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS Mumps] Wikipedia article is pretty scary! |
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== Strengths == |
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* Speed |
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* Compact data structures in storage |
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** If you have less data to move, it's faster |
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* Tom Munnecke's Semantic Network model of data storage, NEED to gather excerpts from his Hardshats post and ask him to elaborate. |
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NEED to get larry to tell about performance processing log files and extracting information. |
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== No Young Blood == |
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Mumps programmers are mostly old and gray haired, retiring and becoming a scarce resource. |
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The [http://vistaexpertise.net Vista Expertise Network] is teaching Mumps and beginning a mentorship program pairing new Mumps programmers with retired Mumps experts. |
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== GT.M == |
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For the OLPC [[WorldVistA]] project we are using the open source [http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm GT.M] Mumps compiler. |
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[[Category:Health]] |
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[[Category:Software]] |
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