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Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
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> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1_MUMPSVM_MUMPS-VM
> 
> MUMPS (the language/database) has run and continues to run, on _many_
> platforms, including z/OS. Which means that perhaps the MUMPS hackers
> still know of what they speak, although I have zero first-hand knowledge
> on the banking software in the U.S.A. 

I don't know of any American bank that uses it and I work with hundreds of
banks. Like I said there may be some oddballs but no major operation is
going to mess around with that stuff.