Recently ComputerWorld released an otherwise good article entitled: Old code proves key to modern IT at Midland Memorial Hospital.

The first paragraph reads in part:

For Midland Memorial Hospital, this came in the form of 1970s-era code unearthed via the Freedom of Information Act.

This is really frustrating. VistA is old. But it is not older than Unix which is the basis for Linux AND Windows. It is not older than C which is the basis for C++, C#, Mono, .Net and to a lesser extent Java, PHP, Python, Ruby (in terms of syntax and overall structure).

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