Show HN: A faithful MUMPS 76 anniversary implementation – the original NoSQL DB

Category: library

Tags: mumps, nosql, programming-language, database, historical, interpreter, key-value-store

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

A faithful implementation of the 1976 MUMPS standard, a pioneering programming language with an integrated hierarchical NoSQL-like database that anticipated modern key-value stores by decades. This project recreates the original minimal standard to enable study of its historic architecture and run vintage medical software, offering unique insights into database and language design.

Target audience: software historians, database enthusiasts, retro-computing hobbyists, programming language researchers

Repository: https://github.com/rochus-keller/mumps/ · Mathematical Programming System · GPL-2.0 · 6 stars

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