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Re:I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to by ineptech on Thursday July 07, 2022 @01:45AM (#32010339)
> Everyone is deathly afraid of making too many changes too fast because when those systems break the money stops flowing and a health system will literally go insolvent.

Isn't this the desired outcome, that such organizations go broke? And let their assets, employees and customers go to some other organization that isn't saddled with technical debt?

Re:I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to by peyton on Thursday July 07, 2022 @02:02AM (#32010432)
The code looks like this:

``` I X?1.N1"H" S X=X3600,%H=$H,@("X=$P(%H,"","",2)"_Y_X),%=$S(X<0:- 1,1:0)+(X\86400),X=X#86400,%H=$P(%H,",")+%_","_X G RT D DMW G 1^%DT:'% S @("%H=$H"_Y_%),%H=%H_","_$P($H,",",2) RT D TT S %=$P(%H,",",2) D S S %=X_% I %DT'["S" S %=+$E(%,1,12) Q:'$D(%(0)) S Y=% G E^%DT PF S %H=$H D YMD S %(9)=X,X=%DT["F"2-1 I @("%I(1)*100+%I(2)"_$E("> <",X+2)_"$E(%(9),4,7)") S %I(3)=%I(3)+X ```

I mean, I can see why reimplementing could be scary even with org churn.

Re:I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to by adolph on Thursday July 07, 2022 @12:34PM (#32016144)
That is from VA Fileman, right? I did a "lite" replatforming a few years ago.

https://www.hardhats.org/fileman/pm/index.htm

Re:I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to by peteradio on Thursday July 07, 2022 @08:41AM (#32013288)
Binary looks like this 010100101001010 or something, surely the task of writing a mumps parser is long done?
Re:I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to by yuretz on Thursday July 07, 2022 @03:25AM (#32010888)
What language is it?
Re:I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to by Ndymium on Thursday July 07, 2022 @03:56AM (#32011082)
From the context I'm guessing MUMPS, and it kinda seems to resemble it, if it had more line breaks: https://github.com/programarivm/mumps-examples/blob/f160bfb6...