MUMPS

That's fascinating. I spent significant time with early MUMPS and the machines of the time (https://github.com/rochus-keller/mumps/) which had a comparable amount of memory. Was your whole insurance application only assembler, i.e. no COBOL or RPG at all?

This is about the MUMPS 1976 standard. I'm not aware of any jobs where this is required. It's purely interesting for historical reasons. The article is part of my anniversary project (https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/). I neither think that "your career will suffer" if you do Ada, Fortran, Mumps (i.e. M/Cache/IRIS or GT.M/YottaDB), RPG or Cobol projects. Specialists are well paid, particularly with mainframe and domain experience.

primer (https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/blob/main/docs/MUMPS_...) is an interesting read I wish someone made something similar for Forth. Too many times I encountered something explained about forth that itself needed explanation for operators

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, I built a faithful implementation of the 1976 MUMPS standard. For those unfamiliar, MUMPS was born at Mass General Hospital in 1966 and ran heavily on PDP-8s and PDP-11s. It was incredibly far ahead of its time: it had a built-in hierarchical database decades before we called it 'NoSQL', allowing hospitals to do concurrent, multi-user data storage on machines with just 8K of memory. I wanted to build an interpreter just for the original 1976 standard to preserve how it felt and worked. It includes the database, a REPL, and it's capable of running historical software from the era (like the original STARTREK application shown in the screenshot: https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/blob/main/docs/imgs/m...). If you want to play with it, I've provided pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac, and Linux, alon

The project is intentionally about the MUMPS 76 standard and its anniversary, see https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/blob/main/Readme.md.

I’ve been working on a project to celebrate the anniversary of MUMPS and its first standard. For those unfamiliar, MUMPS is an imperative language famously born at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1966. Its defining characteristic is that the language and the database are deeply integrated, acting as an early NoSQL database decades before the term existed. See here for more information about the project: https://github.com/rochus-keller/mumps/ There are pre-compiled versions of my MUMPS 76 interpreter in case you want to play with it.