Posts by K.S. Bhaskar

Father of SQL says yes to NoSQL

What is this NoSQL movement of which he speaks?

The very first database was IMS on a mainframe, a NoSQL key-value database written to manage the bill of materials for the Saturn V rocket in the mid 1960s. The second, circa 1967, was MUMPS on the PDP-7 for biological laboratory information systems. Both remain alive and well today. SQL was a Johnny-come-lately to the database world.

What is this NoSQL database movement of which he speaks?

The very first database (IMS on a mainframe) was a NoSQL key-value database. The second one, circa 1967, was MUMPS on a PDP-7. Both are alive and well today. SQL is a Johnny-come-lately to the database world!

Rocky Linux details the loopholes that will help its RHEL rebuild live on

RH is probably more interested in blocking Oracle Linux than Rocky, Alma and friends. My guess is that they will close the loophooles that Rocky Linux uses, but leave others open. We will know in the weeks ahead who they really want to block.

Be still, our drinking hearts: Help Reg name whisky beast conjured by Swedish distillers and AI blendbot

Swedish whiskey smells fishy to me

MacSurströmming

Undead COBOL celebrates (another) 50th birthday

Rumors of MUMPS' demise are exaggerated

As noted in a previous comment, MUMPS is very much alive as the language in which the highly regarded and increasingly widely used VistA application is programmed. Furthermore, MUMPS is also the mainstay of many high end health care applications. The reason it is not as visible is that it is a back-end workhorse, and accessed via other front end technologies - such as Javascript.

There is an active news group - comp.lang.mumps - and GT.M (http://fis-gtm.com), which I manage, is a FOSS implementation of MUMPS on Linux that has been downloaded thousands of times from Source Forge.