/. comments seem to be a contest to see who can demonstrate the least knowledge of the subject. While Mumps is largely unknown to many, it is widely used in health care and finance. Epic Systems controls about 40% of the US market (http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/medical-economics/content/tags/electronic-health-records/why-epics-market-dominance-could-stifle-ehr?page=full) and is written in Mumps as is the world's largest clinical information system, VISTA (http://worldvista.org/AboutVistA).
Mumps is a simple, string oriented scripting language for a builtin multi-dimensional and hierarchical database (http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/source/MUMPS-MDH/stonehill.pdf). It is especially well suited for applications such as medicine where knowledge is often as varying depth hierarchies that are not well suited for relational systems.
The commercial vendors are Intersystems (http://www.intersystems.com - their version is called Cache') and GT.M (http://www.fisglobal.com/products-technologyplatforms-gtm) whose version is open source / GPL. My own version (http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/) is also open source / GPL and can map the Mumps global arrays (the sparse array trees) to PostgreSQL.
Ubuntu 9.10 is great for average users as long they can run the thing from a root CLI.
to configure screen resolution (default 800x600) first you get an error message that the default config tool won't work because of proprietary drivers. do you want to use the proprietary tool? yes. proprietary tool fills screen and bottom (with apply/save buttons) overflows and is inaccessible. figure a way around this by opening more screens. apply the new setting. save setting, get error message about backup file privs.
plug in a USB drive. get message that you don't have privs to mount it. look for DiskManager tool that was present on 8.10. not there. synaptic pachage manager: install MountManager. hides button in in another menu which you need to configure. find it and click it. nothing happens. so, CLI in root mode - library object error message in MountManager. so, edit fstab and remove offending lines. correct privs for mount dirs in/media. reboot. screen res wrong again. back to step one.
eventually, you forget why you were trying to access the USB drive.
The Mumps Language was re-designated as the M language a number of years ago. While Mumps isn't as widely used as some others, perhaps the people in Redmond should do a literature search before they name things.
no, it was Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Chuck Scumer who pushed as Fannie and Freddie to pump up the real estate bubble with toxic, no-doc, zero down, adjustable rate mortgages which were bundled into securities and sold to pension funds. These have blown up as the debtors have walked away from their debt. to infuse the current situation with a whacko, 'blame George Bush for everything' narrative is tedious and intellectually transparent.
After WWI, the German (Wiemar) government decided to honor German Imperial War bonds despite advice to the contrary.
Soon, Germans were converting their bonds into cash since, as obligations of the German government, they were the equivalent of cash, less a discount for interest and time.
Soon Germans were pushing wheel barrows full of cash to the store to buy a loaf of bread. (see:
It seems that the government simply printed money in order to redeem the war bonds. There were other causes such as the loss of the Ruhr and gold based reparations but, in the final analysis, is was the printing press.....
Soon the US Treasury will begin buying mortgage backed securities from the banks. To do this, they will sell bonds, backed by the full faith and credit of the US government.
The Federal Reserve Bank will buy these bonds, either directly at auction or indirectly through the open market so that the flood of bonds doesn't cause a drop in the price of bonds and, hence, a serious increase in interest rates.
To buy the bonds, the Fed will print money, either the funny looking paper stuff or a lot of electronic credits sent to banks through FedWire. Either way, lots of new cash will enter into the system....
I suspect, however, that it won't be long before we'll be using those old Weimar wheel barrows ourselves to fetch our loaves of bread.
The moral? Yeah, right. What's morality got to do with government?
An often overlooked scripting language is Mumps (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System), developed in the late 1960's.
Mumps (also referred to as M) supports a multidimensional and hierarchical database facility implemented as string subscripted array references. It was widely used in clinical computing and remains to this day the basis of the U.S. Veterans Administration's computerized medical record system, the largest of its kind in the world.
Its main features are: (1) its tree-structured (multi-dimensional) database; and (2) its flexible string handling facilities which now including PCRE functions.
There are both compiler and interpreter versions available as open source/GPL packages. It supports many text processing functions, system shell integration, as well relational database access. There is also a compatible C++ library to integrate the tree structured data base access into C++ programs. The Mumps/II native hierarchical array database may range in size up to 256 terabytes.
I agree that the proces of texts has gotten out of control. I'm also not happy that every 2 years the publishers release a "new edition" in order to trash the used market ('new editions" generally differ only in font or color schemes). Another stunt is crappy bindings designed to disintegrate after on semester thus making them worthless as 2nd hand books.
I've been hacking away at a free text for information retrieval for a couple of years. See:
The little known computer language Mumps (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multiprogramming System - http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane) implemented all these claims 30 years earlier. Documentation from that earlier era pretty much shows all the features that M$ appears to be claiming. Another case of M$'s deja vu all over again?
since many people claim to be sensitive to radio waves, hence the popularity of aluminum foil hats, is it true that radio itself, those evil fluctuations in the aether, is a violation of copyright?
it is indeed a happy thought to think that, at long last, modern music will be banished from the air. give me non-copyrighted music, please. nothing more recent than G. Mahler.
note: there is no Latin plural for the word virus (means slime, basically). the expected plural, viri, is the plural of vir (man). the plural of virus is viruses.
besides the probable loss of sales due to the stigma that will attach to the phone, the related costs in other areas (if I buy a Mac, will Jobs disable it if I install someone else's software?) may be far greater. just as Apple was poised to make gains over the worthless M$ Vista, the shoot themselves in the foot then reload and do it again. Moreover, the anti-trust/class action aspect could also be expensive, very expensive. perhaps the idea here really was to distract people from Jobs' special way of getting stock options?
Maybe the real question is, how to get Linux developers to play the game professionally. Do we really need more incomplete, undocumented, fail-disable, unverified software? The issue of Linux success is more a question of when will Linux software become polished, real end user value? Why do I spend so much time hacking around fixing scripts that should have been done right before they were posted? Why am I re-writing resolv.conf after re-boot to replace the incorrect (gateway address, not nameserver address) mismanagement in some layered, undocumented fork from network?
Com'on guys, the field's 100 yards. No touchdown until the job's finished. We don't need another 'final coding left to end user' version of anything.
The ruling class takes cash from Disney and Disney calls the shots. Any surprise there? you may think the pols are your friend but, no, they like their bankers better. Much better. But, if they smile at you, you'll understand, won't you?
...What's scary is the range of people that are supposed to get access to the collected information, it's not just the police but also "Nachrichtendienste" (news agencies!?) and "ausländische Staaten" (other countries, apparently any that ask)...
Nachrichtendienste means intelligencce agencies as in Bundesnachrichtendienst G(erman Federal Intelligence Service, the BND)
Slashdot Mirror
/. comments seem to be a contest to see who can demonstrate the least knowledge of the subject. While Mumps is largely unknown to many, it is widely used in health care and finance. Epic Systems controls about 40% of the US market (http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/medical-economics/content/tags/electronic-health-records/why-epics-market-dominance-could-stifle-ehr?page=full) and is written in Mumps as is the world's largest clinical information system, VISTA (http://worldvista.org/AboutVistA).
Mumps is a simple, string oriented scripting language for a builtin multi-dimensional and hierarchical database (http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/source/MUMPS-MDH/stonehill.pdf). It is especially well suited for applications such as medicine where knowledge is often as varying depth hierarchies that are not well suited for relational systems.
The commercial vendors are Intersystems (http://www.intersystems.com - their version is called Cache') and GT.M (http://www.fisglobal.com/products-technologyplatforms-gtm) whose version is open source / GPL. My own version (http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/) is also open source / GPL and can map the Mumps global arrays (the sparse array trees) to PostgreSQL.
Ubuntu 9.10 is great for average users as long they
can run the thing from a root CLI.
to configure screen resolution (default 800x600)
first you get an error message that the default
config tool won't work because of proprietary
drivers. do you want to use the proprietary tool?
yes. proprietary tool fills screen and bottom
(with apply/save buttons) overflows and is inaccessible.
figure a way around this by opening more screens.
apply the new setting. save setting, get error
message about backup file privs.
plug in a USB drive. get message that you don't /media.
have privs to mount it. look for DiskManager tool
that was present on 8.10. not there. synaptic
pachage manager: install MountManager. hides button in
in another menu which you need to configure. find it
and click it. nothing happens. so, CLI in
root mode - library object error message in
MountManager. so, edit fstab and remove offending
lines. correct privs for mount dirs in
reboot. screen res wrong again. back to step one.
eventually, you forget why you were trying to
access the USB drive.
see also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
The Mumps Language was re-designated as the M language a number of
years ago. While Mumps isn't as widely used as some others, perhaps
the people in Redmond should do a literature search before they
name things.
see:
http://math-cs.cns.uni.edu/~okane/mumps.html
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/
no, it was Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Chuck Scumer who
pushed as Fannie and Freddie to pump up the real estate bubble
with toxic, no-doc, zero down, adjustable rate mortgages which
were bundled into securities and sold to pension funds.
These have blown up as the debtors have walked away from
their debt. to infuse the current situation with a whacko,
'blame George Bush for everything' narrative is tedious
and intellectually transparent.
After WWI, the German (Wiemar) government decided to
honor German Imperial War bonds despite advice to the
contrary.
Soon, Germans were converting their bonds into cash
since, as obligations of the German government, they
were the equivalent of cash, less a discount for
interest and time.
Soon Germans were pushing wheel barrows full of cash
to the store to buy a loaf of bread. (see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation
It seems that the government simply printed money in ....
order to redeem the war bonds. There were other causes
such as the loss of the Ruhr and gold based reparations
but, in the final analysis, is was the printing press.
Soon the US Treasury will begin buying mortgage backed
securities from the banks. To do this, they will sell
bonds, backed by the full faith and credit of the US
government.
The Federal Reserve Bank will buy these bonds, either
directly at auction or indirectly through the open
market so that the flood of bonds doesn't cause a drop in
the price of bonds and, hence, a serious increase in
interest rates.
To buy the bonds, the Fed will print money, either the ....
funny looking paper stuff or a lot of electronic credits
sent to banks through FedWire. Either way, lots of new cash
will enter into the system
I suspect, however, that it won't be long before we'll
be using those old Weimar wheel barrows ourselves to
fetch our loaves of bread.
The moral? Yeah, right. What's morality got to do with
government?
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/source/ISR/isr.html
na-na-nana!
APL has no data base. And I knew Ken Iverson,
he was a pretty sharp comp sci'tst.
An often overlooked scripting language is Mumps (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System), developed in the late 1960's.
Mumps (also referred to as M) supports a multidimensional and hierarchical database facility implemented as string subscripted array references. It was widely used in clinical computing and remains to this day the basis of the U.S. Veterans Administration's computerized medical record system, the largest of its kind in the world.
Its main features are: (1) its tree-structured (multi-dimensional) database; and (2) its flexible string handling facilities which now including PCRE functions.
There are both compiler and interpreter versions available as open source/GPL packages. It supports many text processing functions, system shell integration, as well relational database access. There is also a compatible C++ library to integrate the tree structured data base access into C++ programs. The Mumps/II native hierarchical array database may range in size up to 256 terabytes.
The package is available from:
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane
(see download link).
I agree that the proces of texts has gotten out of control. I'm also not happy that every 2 years the publishers release a "new edition" in order to trash the used market ('new editions" generally differ only in font or color schemes). Another stunt is crappy bindings designed to disintegrate after on semester thus making them worthless as 2nd hand books.
I've been hacking away at a free text for information retrieval for a couple of years. See:
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/source/ISR/isr.html
still a work in progress but it's a start.
The little known computer language Mumps (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multiprogramming System - http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane) implemented all these claims 30 years earlier. Documentation from that earlier era pretty much shows all the features that M$ appears to be claiming. Another case of M$'s deja vu all over again?
Einstein also didn't believe in quantum mechanics which he famously dismissed with the phrase "God doesn't play with dice."
I guess if you get the 'i before e' thing wrong twice in your own name, you might be error prone in other things.
since many people claim to be sensitive to radio
waves, hence the popularity of aluminum foil
hats, is it true that radio itself, those evil
fluctuations in the aether, is a violation of
copyright?
it is indeed a happy thought to think that, at
long last, modern music will be banished from the
air. give me non-copyrighted music, please.
nothing more recent than G. Mahler.
in the text: ... with worms and virii....
note: there is no Latin plural for the word
virus (means slime, basically). the expected
plural, viri, is the plural of vir (man). the
plural of virus is viruses.
besides the probable loss of sales due to the stigma that will attach to the phone, the related costs in other areas (if I buy a Mac, will Jobs disable it if I install someone else's software?) may be far greater. just as Apple was poised to make gains over the worthless M$ Vista, the shoot themselves in the foot then reload and do it again. Moreover, the anti-trust/class action aspect could also be expensive, very expensive. perhaps the idea here really was to distract people from Jobs' special way of getting stock options?
SP1 = XP?
Maybe the real question is, how to get Linux
developers to play the game professionally.
Do we really need more incomplete, undocumented,
fail-disable, unverified software? The issue
of Linux success is more a question of when will
Linux software become polished, real end user
value? Why do I spend so much time hacking
around fixing scripts that should have been done
right before they were posted? Why am I re-writing
resolv.conf after re-boot to replace the incorrect
(gateway address, not nameserver address) mismanagement
in some layered, undocumented fork from network?
Com'on guys, the field's 100 yards. No touchdown until
the job's finished. We don't need another 'final coding
left to end user' version of anything.
The ruling class takes cash from Disney and Disney calls the shots. Any surprise there? you may think the pols are your friend but, no, they like their bankers better. Much better. But, if they smile at you, you'll understand, won't you?
...What's scary is the range of people that are supposed to get access to the collected information,
it's not just the police but also "Nachrichtendienste" (news agencies!?) and "ausländische Staaten" (other countries, apparently any that ask)...
Nachrichtendienste means intelligencce agencies as in Bundesnachrichtendienst G(erman Federal Intelligence Service, the BND)
Gauleiters, same as the last time I expect.
Ha! Just a plot to put Rush Limbaugh on even
more stations. Another Right Wing Conspiracy!
Superheterodyne, my ass!