On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 06:25, Richard Schilling wrote:
Java? Perhaps, but a native Python interface via the C/C++ API to the GT.M data store would be very cool. Then parts of VistA could be gradually re-written or extended in a more modern, object oriented language which is just as productive as MUMPS. Is the C/C++ API published anywhere?
Python would probably be good too.
You can get the sourcecode and programmer guides on the sourceforge website:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11026&release_id=37273
> My initial impression is that it would be easier to just rewrite GT.M > interpreter in Java and provide a MUMPS API interface to the data.
Um, I wonder how many person-years went into GT.M - quite a few, I suspect. Rewriting it in Java sounds like a very major undertaking.
The GT.M code base is not too large actually. MUMPS seems to be pretty easy to parse.
--Richard
