On Saturday, January 26, 2013 1:05:21 PM UTC, ajlopez wrote: > Yes, very interesting.... > > I remember Mumps from a Computer Language (or Dr. Dobb's?) article from > the eighties. > > Any tutorial links for Mumps Globals? > > See:
http://www.mgateway.com/docs/universalNoSQL.pdf and my rather older paper: http://gradvs1.mgateway.com/download/extreme1.pdf Forget the Mumps language, but its database is very powerful. A NoSQL database that pre-dates the NoSQL movement by several decades! Of course, the message I'm trying to get across is that all that Mumps-based healthcare stuff out there is in desperate need of a new generation of developers to support and modernise it. To that end it's a huge industry reliant on a dwindling population of ageing developers (sadly I have to admit I'm one of those ageing guys! :-). That Mumps-based stuff isn't going to disappear in a hurry either. As the US Dept of Veterans Affairs have found to their cost (several $b in fact), it's not a problem that can be tackled by a rip and replace rewrite, no matter how many $$$ and experts you throw at the problem: this stuff is just too big a legacy of code. And actually, the Mumps database is very good at handling healthcare data (hardly surprising since it was specifically designed for managing healthcare data), so it would be pretty dumb to throw that baby out with the bathwater. On the other hand, Javascript is ideally suited for integrating with and manipulating Mumps-based data (as my blog postings and other articles aim to demonstrate), and, through the Node.js interfaces that are now available, it's possible to invoke and therefore encapsulate and abstract the existing Mumps programming logic, at least as an initial stop-gap while a gradual, measured and low-risk migration to Javascript logic can take place over time. Along the way, I'm hopeful that the new generation of Node.js/Javascript developers will discover some of the coolness of the Mumps database and think of new ways of using it as another member of the growing NoSQL database ecosystem, but that's a nice-to-have. I think the really important issue here is if and how the Node.js development community can come to the rescue of all that Mumps-based healthcare software that pretty-much dominates the healthcare sector worldwide. Rob -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
