Re: O'Reilly interview with Date

From: David Cressey <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:39:54 GMT
Message-ID: <_MpIe.2972$ns.525@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>

"Kenneth Downs" <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock> wrote in message news:mpe8s2-hhl.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net...

> I had the good fortune to get some private programming lessons from the
man
> who invented MUMPS, he told me "minimize code, maximize data!" and it is
> probably the most consistently solid, flexible, and overall useful bit of
> advice I've ever gotten.

Who invented MUMPS?

My only contact with MUMPS is through hearsay at DEC. It's my understanding that MUMPS grew out of an application development at a hospital in Boston, I forget which.

As a purely practical matter, I'd love to tackle a mid size project, single handedly, that ported a system from a MUMPS implementation to one based on html, java, and Oracle. I'd like to see, specifically, what the obstacles are. Received on Thu Aug 04 2005 - 09:39:54 CDT