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froggey
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Re: MDashOS

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loki8989 wrote:The MUMPS system is used in many different fields(mainly medical and banking).
:shock:
Is this the same MUMPS that showed up the TheDailyWTF a while ago?

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_ ... MUMPS.aspx
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Re: MDashOS

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froggey wrote:
loki8989 wrote:The MUMPS system is used in many different fields(mainly medical and banking).
:shock:
Is this the same MUMPS that showed up the TheDailyWTF a while ago?

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_ ... MUMPS.aspx
Yes, it is in fact the same MUMPS. But that is only the viewpoint of a bitter former employee of a company. It is no worse syntactically than PERL. It all depends on maintaining proper coding practices, which employees at that company, programmers neglected to do.

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Re: MDashOS

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loki8989 wrote:
froggey wrote:
loki8989 wrote:The MUMPS system is used in many different fields(mainly medical and banking).
:shock:
Is this the same MUMPS that showed up the TheDailyWTF a while ago?

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_ ... MUMPS.aspx
Yes, it is in fact the same MUMPS. But that is only the viewpoint of a bitter former employee of a company. It is no worse syntactically than PERL. It all depends on maintaining proper coding practices, which employees at that company, programmers neglected to do.

loki8989
Perl is syntactically beautiful! :shock:
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Re: MDashOS

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I kinda like the looks of MUMPS better than Perl...

Ehhhh whats another distraction from my own OS? :P G'head and send me a PM with details on joining this project. I would be happy to have something to work on.
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