[Info-vax] Meditech in the news

[plugh]

On Wednesday, January 5, 2022 at 2:36:01 AM UTC-7, George Cornelius wrote:
> plugh <jchi... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > kemain... at gmail.com wrote: 
> >> [...]
> > That's nice. A longer search while "flogging my memory" 
> > for lived experience results in 
> > https://www.academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/MUMPS
> It's not Mumps, an extension of it developed by the creator 
> of the Mumps language. 

It's not MUMPS? maybe M? Maybe Mumps? maybe MUmphSsss?

Jesus God, talk about damning with faint praise. I appreciate the DECusEerve addr, but really? It's Mumps, errr M.... errr...
Those of us who actually write software for a living know MuMPS when they smell it. One of the founders of the friggin' company actually helped develop the language.
I had a contract at Kaiser to help maintain their lab interface written in

wait for

it


MUMPS!!!!

I just love cov