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by briffle 874 days ago
EPIC is flashy, has a gorgous campus in Madison, WI, and has lots of marketing. but at its core, it runs on MUMPS as both a language and database.

I know many people that have worked on their integration teams, and could not imagine having to deal with what they do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

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my team is about to start working on an epic integration and i can safely say we’ve all thought briefly about staging a revolt…

i just keep telling myself “at least it’s not meditech…”