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Re: VistA and MUMPS: Big, Ugly and Proud by Ethan Waldo on Thursday October 27, @03:42PM I've talked recently with an executive account manager from a large HIS vendor who decades ago had hired MUMPS developers. His main compliment was that it is a text-based database so it automatically sorts everything alphabetically. Of course this led in to some original headaches when using MUMPS for word processing in early HIS systems since in order to get to the next line you would have to arrow over up to 40 times (columns) to get to the next line. Eventually his programmer added some code in to make it go to the next line automatically which to the people at the time was mana from heaven. His main criticism was that because it was a text-based database that any number-crunching algorithms became very inefficient (i.e. financials or processing lab results). I've been eager to enter in to the world of VistA and MUMPS and look forward to getting my hands on this book. Post Reply Name Email Notify Notify me via email of responses to this message Title Comment (Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!) Encoding HTML Structured Text Plain Text If none of the above mean anything to you, select 'Plain'! Attachment (You can attach a file to your reply which can then be retrieved by other readers. Try to keep the file sizes below 500Kb in order to conserve network and server resources.) Enter the above code (*Required) Allowed HTML <B> <I> <P> <A> <LI> <OL> <UL> <EM> <BR> <TT> <HR> <STRONG> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV .*> <DIV> <P .*> Important Stuff: Note: Fields with bold titles are required. Please try to keep posts on topic. Try to reply to other people comments instead of starting new threads, Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. Please do not post offtopic, inflammatory, inappropriate, illegal, or offensive comments. Repeat offenders will be sanctioned.

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