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Petroleum industry used to use Pick where I lived for some distribution software, but it seems it's main place is medical records software from what I've heard).

It is a fine distinction I suppose, although the Pick stuff I've looked at was more than just stored procedures - TUI/GUI support for apps (mostly dumb terminal based but Cache probably has some GUI stuff in there now), overnight batch scripts and report creation etc.

I haven't used MUMPS, but did a little bit of time with Pick and later on Cache. I believe Pick systems were often more than just the multi-valued database and absolutely horrendous language, in that they were often tightly integrated into the OS too - disk storage, terminal support etc.



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