12 Jul
2014
12 Jul
'14
10:13 a.m.
On Jul 11, 2014, at 10:04 PM, John Willis <chocolatejollis38 at gmail.com> wrote:
I don't know how many of you fine people are
familiar with the MUMPS
programming language, but MUMPS development accounts for about 50% of
my income. Considering that it has as storied of a background as UNIX
(having been first implemented in ~1966), and is old, I'm wondering if
any of you have any thoughts about it.
I don?t know MUMPS, and I?ve only seen it once or twice.
My first job at DEC was product support for Typeset-11 (TMS-11). Right next to our group
was the development team for Assist-11, which was a telephone directory assistance
database product implemented in MUMPS.
Wasn?t MUMPS-11 an OS rather than just a language? Or DSM-11 (DEC Standard MUMPS). I
thought that ASSIST-11 ran on that OS. From the descriptions I heard, the performance was
amazingly high, for doing fuzzy text queries on a large database ? which after all is what
telephone directory lookups is all about.
paul