On Jan 15, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Joseph Dal Molin wrote:
...perhaps the most strategic thing one could do to attract
programmers is make it easy to work with VistA with other languages
like Python etc. thus creating a much larger pool of programmers.
The non gui components and platform portability of the client are
key areas where non-M skills are key... by opening up development
to a broader audience, motivation to learn M will follow!
Joseph
Okay, a more serious response: MUMPS ought to be to VistA as C is to
Unix. I have nothing against C (of course), but Unix would not be
nearly so popular as it is today if applications could only be
written in C.
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