On: A Case of the MUMPS (2007)

[TylerE]

A couple of jobs ago, I was working somewhere where the big niche app they used was based on an Intersystems Cache DB. Cache is literally actual commercialized MUMPS. It had a SQL translation layer, but it was still...very weird.

[p_l → TylerE]

And there's new development done on it, in MUMPS in fact, because to fully utilize it you still need to use MUMPS.

It shows up in financial companies a bit.

[quickthrower2 → TylerE]

I remember Intersystems Cache ads. I dreamt about how nice it would be to use as I grappled with hand crafted (remember to escape untrusted inputs!!) SQL statements in the “Lower Level Business” layer of a ASP.NET1.0 app. Sounds like it wasn’t such a silver bullet?