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foldor
1471 days ago
My guess based in my experience would a MUMPS developer for someone like Epic or Meditech. That code gives me nightmares whenever I see it.
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easrng
1471 days ago
Still can barely believe MUMPS is real tbh, first saw it on TDWTF and I thought it was a joke at first.
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ternaryoperator
1471 days ago
Coming from today's world, sure. But in 1966, a language with a built-in database was a godsend and there were no standard language conventions to adopt (C was still several years away and only COBOL and Fortran were in wide use).
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oneepic
1471 days ago
What, like $$foo(3,4,@bar,"baz")?
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