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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (379661)	4/22/2008 12:47:06 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578349

"That they did this extensive project in a language such as MUMPS is shocking --" Um, M is MUMPS. In the language itself, keywords can be shortened to a single letter. So it is natural for a MUMPS programmer to shorten the language name in a similar manner. When DHCP was originally written, MUMPS was a natural choice. It has many database functions built into the language. The only other practical choice at the time was Pick/BASIC. And that was platform specific. But, if you don't like MUMPS, VistA has been translated into Java and is web based. I don't know much about it.