Re: Cross Platform Development

From	rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.raspberry-pi, comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Cross Platform Development
Date	2015-04-29 18:49 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 4/29/2015 4:07 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:43:33 -0400, rickman wrote:
>
>> On 4/29/2015 3:31 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:34:02 -0400, rickman wrote:
>>>
>>>> You got all that from the wikipedia page?  You seem to read
>>>> selectively.
>>>>
>>> Of course he did. The first line of the article says:
>>>
>>> MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming
>>> System)...
>>
>> The name is pretty clear to me... "Multi-Programming System".  It
>> doesn't say anything about medical use, just that it was developed for a
>> hospital.  They do more than medicine you know.  Inventory, finance and
>> logistics are applicable to many, many things.
>
> I think that came later - the article says that it was developed by a
> group that worked in an animal testing lab to keep track of results and
> then was than spotted by patient admissions and used in that area.
>
> After that it seems to have a home in finance and banking as well as in
> other medical situations.
>
> Cm'on, who outside the medical world would would think that MUMPS was a
> great acronym? I think folks have largely forgotten the disease now,
> along with measles, but when I was a kid mumps, measles and chicken pox
> were the things you didn't want to get, and mumps may have been the
> nastiest of these, especially if you were bloke and past puberty.
>
> ...goes off fuming about the selfish bastards who refuse to vaccinate
> their kids...

Lol.  Yeah, to paraphrase Lincoln, most of the people are goofy about 
some things and some of the people are goofy about most things...  More 
recently I have started looking at everything in life with a critical 
eye and I am finding no end to the things that people accept without 
questioning.  I believe this is mostly because people are lazy...  but, 
there is a point to where paying attention to all the details just 
becomes exhausting, especially if you try to live in the same world you 
have always lived in.  So most people just follow the herd.  Is that 
what they refer to as "herd immunity"... immunity from thought?

BTW, I am surprised they were even allowed to call it MUMPS.  I think 
that would be a real issue in the medical community.  It's like calling 
a new cell phone targeted to doctors... EBOLA.  "Honey, I can't find my 
EBOLA anywhere.  Would you give it a ring?  Oh, there's my EBOLA."

-- 

Rick

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Re: Cross Platform Development rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-26 09:25 -0400
  Re: Cross Platform Development Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-26 19:43 +0000
    Re: Cross Platform Development rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-26 21:30 -0400
      Re: Cross Platform Development Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-28 15:16 -0700
    Re: Cross Platform Development hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-04-26 19:46 -0700
    Re: Cross Platform Development "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-26 22:23 -1000
      Re: Cross Platform Development Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-28 15:12 -0700
        Re: Cross Platform Development The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-29 05:23 +0100
          Re: Cross Platform Development rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 13:34 -0400
            Re: Cross Platform Development Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-29 19:31 +0000
              Re: Cross Platform Development rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 15:43 -0400
                Re: Cross Platform Development Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-29 20:07 +0000
                Re: Cross Platform Development rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 18:49 -0400
              Re: Cross Platform Development Mike Fleming <{mike}@tauzero.co.uk> - 2015-05-01 18:23 +0100
                Re: Cross Platform Development Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-05-02 02:35 -0500
                Re: Cross Platform Development Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2015-05-02 10:08 +0000
  Re: Cross Platform Development The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-27 09:31 +0100

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