Dear Cameron,
This is why I have taken lately to reminding people that VistA is not
written in MUMPS. VistA (well, DHCP anyway) is written in Standard
MUMPS. The difference, as you know, is the heart of VistA's
portability, and therefore sustainability.
Yours truly,
Rick
Cameron Schlehube
The 3-tier architecture with SQL at the database tier permits (in theory)
the ability to swap vendors of the DBMS. The cost is one of performance
unless stored procedures are used ... which then end up tying you to the
DBMS vendor. ANSI M provides a way out of that problem since the business
logi
