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Why did they encourage you to refer to it by different names? In what context?
by ajmurmann 10y ago
Why did they encourage you to refer to it by different names? In what context?
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- rnprince 10y agoThere is a section called "'MUMPS' vs. 'M' naming debate" in the wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS "Some of the contention arose in response to strong M advocacy on the part of one commercial interest, InterSystems, whose chief executive disliked the name MUMPS and felt that it represented a serious marketing obstacle. Thus, favoring M to some extent became identified as alignment with InterSystems."
- amptorn 10y ago"Mumps" is a pretty awful name to use for the purposes of healthcare software. You might as well call your database system "Cancer".