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MUMPS. Despite its strong resemblance to compiler IR and lack of a type system, it is the standard DB in Health IT in America.

kiernanmcgowan 10y ago
I'm going to take a wild guess - EPIC?
- lgessler 10y ago
  Heh, of course the Madisonian would figure it out :)
hobo_mark 10y ago
Oh my, just had memories of a much younger me reading these in horror back in the day: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS http://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS http://thedailywtf.com/articles/MUMPS-Madness http://thedailywtf.com/articles/MUMPS-Madness
robteix 10y ago
OMG the memories! I did work in MUMPS while I was in college in the early 90s. I had completely forgotten about this. Thanks for that :)
paulrpotts 10y ago
Oddly enough I just got a recruiter spam message for a MUMPS developer position. I had never heard of it, but I thought to myself "why would I want to develop mumps???"
- swalsh 10y ago
  MUMPS get's a bad rep, it's kind of ugly, but has some awesome ideas built into it. I'm not convinced EPIC's success is despite the fact it uses MUMPS, I think it's a contributing factor.
jsgrahamus2 10y ago
First started programming in MIIS (relative to MUMPS) in late 1981. And have continued to use MUMPS/M/MSM/DSM/Cache for most of the intervening years with 4 years off for Fortran and a year or two for COBOL. Most of the work has been with medical information systems, although the first job entailed a library information system. One of the few languages I knew of which could make a PC-AT into a multi-user machine. It also enabled a clinic to move from a PDP to a 386 and to no longer have to relegate financial batch jobs to off hours. Will probably also continue to use AWK this year.
cema 10y ago
MUMPS is standard in places which deal with Intersystems, via Ensemble (integration system) and their Cache database. An intriguing stack of technologies: an old and 100% backward compatible programming language, an object-oriented (non-relational) database with direct access from the high-level language (M; they do not like it when you call it MUMPS), and quite a number of very good software engineers having worked on this system for 30+ years.

kiernanmcgowan 10y ago

I'm going to take a wild guess - EPIC?

lgessler 10y ago
Heh, of course the Madisonian would figure it out :)

hobo_mark 10y ago

Oh my, just had memories of a much younger me reading these in horror back in the day: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS http://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS http://thedailywtf.com/articles/MUMPS-Madness http://thedailywtf.com/articles/MUMPS-Madness

robteix 10y ago

OMG the memories! I did work in MUMPS while I was in college in the early 90s. I had completely forgotten about this. Thanks for that :)

paulrpotts 10y ago

Oddly enough I just got a recruiter spam message for a MUMPS developer position. I had never heard of it, but I thought to myself "why would I want to develop mumps???"

swalsh 10y ago
MUMPS get's a bad rep, it's kind of ugly, but has some awesome ideas built into it. I'm not convinced EPIC's success is despite the fact it uses MUMPS, I think it's a contributing factor.

jsgrahamus2 10y ago

First started programming in MIIS (relative to MUMPS) in late 1981. And have continued to use MUMPS/M/MSM/DSM/Cache for most of the intervening years with 4 years off for Fortran and a year or two for COBOL. Most of the work has been with medical information systems, although the first job entailed a library information system. One of the few languages I knew of which could make a PC-AT into a multi-user machine. It also enabled a clinic to move from a PDP to a 386 and to no longer have to relegate financial batch jobs to off hours. Will probably also continue to use AWK this year.

cema 10y ago

MUMPS is standard in places which deal with Intersystems, via Ensemble (integration system) and their Cache database. An intriguing stack of technologies: an old and 100% backward compatible programming language, an object-oriented (non-relational) database with direct access from the high-level language (M; they do not like it when you call it MUMPS), and quite a number of very good software engineers having worked on this system for 30+ years.