Comment by mcherm
12 years ago
Are you looking for work? Because my company is hiring good MUMPS programmers -- we are nearly always on the lookout for qualified people.
I bring it up, not because I think you're likely to be looking for work, but because I thought the others reading this discussion thread might be interested in the fact that it is difficult to hire qualified MUMPS programmers.
I work at a bank, and our banking system (the system that keeps track of the balances in the accounts) is written in MUMPS -- probably because it dates back to the time when that was the shiny new programming language.
Yikes. I've not done mumps in a long while, but I've heard from old co-workers that Cache has had a number of significant security vunerabilities in recent years.
There was a thing a little while ago, but haven't seen anything big in many years apart from that. Mostly something about database corruption on VMS or ECP or similarly obscure things not really relevant to us.