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- From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
- Subject: Re: MUMPS programming language (history)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.153346.2027@siia.mv.com>
- Keywords: MUMPS M
- Organization: Software Innovations, Inc., Nashua, NH
- References: <1992Jul26.173923.21066@kosman.uucp> <1992Jul27.145356.6637@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 15:33:46 GMT
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- We designed and implemented a language we called "AVL" (although
- we couldn't sell it under that name because "Audio Visual Labs
- objected -- so we call it "Proto-C").
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- It was a marriage of C control syntax with the Mumps datatype.
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- We developed it on a machine with 64K I-space and 64K D-space (
- an Onyx, if you must know), so we provided dynamic function linking.
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- It was a lot of fun to work with, without some of the cryptic
- aspects of Mumps.
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- David Dick
- Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company]
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