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Of the places I've encountered Mumps/Pick/Cache, there has always been that one gatekeeper guy - only he knew the arcane abbreviations and structure in his head
by yodelsnorter 9y ago
Of the places I've encountered Mumps/Pick/Cache, there has always been that one gatekeeper guy - only he knew the arcane abbreviations and structure in his head, everyone else had to bow and scrape to get things done.
Very good language if unmaintainable, arcane code and/or job security through obscurity is your thing. Cache even let it onto the web some years back I think with ObjectScript. Just wholly nasty. The politics in medical software has been pretty rife from what I've experienced too.
- ams6110 9y agoI remember full page ads for Cache in Datamation and similar IT-management-oriented publications, in the mid 1990s. They called it a "post-relational database" without ever really explaining what that meant.
- sedachv 9y agoInterSystems switched to advertising Caché as an "object" database sometime in the 2000s (at least that is when I first saw their ads, maybe it started earlier). I assumed it was something like ObjectStore. Definitely felt deceived when I found out what it really was.