[Info-vax] Meditech in the news

[plugh]

On Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 12:59:12 PM UTC-7, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/8/2022 1:40 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote: 
> > plugh <jchi... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> >> I think one of the aspects of MUmPhs that buggers newbs is that it's one of= 
> >> the few languages implementing content addressable memory, even to seconda= 
> >> ry storage. I've professionally written REXX, which is the only other such = 
> >> language. I'm sure there are others. 
> > 
> > It's actually become a popular thing recently, with hashes being implemented 
> > in perl and python as standard data structures. Not as extensive or 
> > transparent as in Mumps, mind you.
> In memory hashtables/hashmaps/dictionaries/associative arrays are a 
> standard feature in most newer languages. 
> 
> Index-sequential files/NoSQL Key Value Stores are also common across 
> technologies. 
> 
> The combination is not common. Even though I guess that languages 
> that allow overloading of indexing operator could do something 
> similar under the hood. 
> 
> Arne

Very true. I should've been clearer when referencing CAM. I'd like to call out stem-and-list CAM as opposed to hashing &c. The difference is storage organization around paths, not nodes. That's why I namechecked REXX. I'm quite sure perl could do that as well.