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golergka on June 10, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Case of the MUMPS (2007)

Horrifying for developers, but such longevity is great for the client

fiddlerwoaroof on June 10, 2023 [–]

Yeah, there are downsides to old tech like this (hard to find developers, for one) but some of these old systems (especially the AS/400) seem to have an appliance-like operational profile that modern stacks make hard or impossible.

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