From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,b6d862eabdeb1fc4 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!edtnps83.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Duke Normandin Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used? References: <65085f91733aa81eba0bbaf44f895e29@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Darwin) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:15:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.154.86.82 X-Trace: edtnps83 1275876953 75.154.86.82 (Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:15:53 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:15:53 MDT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:12353 Date: 2010-06-07T02:15:53+00:00 List-Id: On 2010-06-06, Fritz Wuehler wrote: >> > Yes, only in H/C. No American bank uses MUMPS. >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >> Are you sure? I've heard differently from MUMPS folks. > > Pretty sure. There may be the odd ball out there but 99.9% run IBM z/OS or > VSE. If they say otherwise let them name names. > Look here: 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. -- Duke Normandin *** Tolerance becomes a crime, when applied to evil [Thomas Mann] ***