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Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next
- ▶ 1:26 Alex Rampell Um, and then that's what happened with electronic health records, and the first one was called MOPS.
Software is Eating Labor
- ▶ 7:42 Alex Rampell The first electronic health records company was a company called Mumps, which arguably is the worst name in the history of software. 2 times in the scene
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 30:17 David Rosenthal So they end up writing their own new programming language called the Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multiprogramming System, or Mumps.
- ▶ 30:28 Ben Gilbert Which is amazing that there's a medical oriented programming language called Mumps.
- ▶ 30:33 David Rosenthal And Epic still uses Mumps today, or actually it uses its
- ▶ 30:58 David Rosenthal So now there are two key features of mumps, and this is why these programmers had to create their own language.
- ▶ 32:09 David Rosenthal Now, the lead programmer of this group here at MGH, at MassGen, that is creating CoStar and Mumps, was a recent MIT graduate named Neil Pappalardo.
- ▶ 33:39 David Rosenthal So through this connection, Judy learns about mumps and she goes and learns mumps, the programming language, starts working on this problem.
- ▶ 47:57 David Rosenthal He was on the original Mupps team.
- ▶ 3:18:44 David Rosenthal I buy that generally, but I think specifically you can point to their software developers who they are hiring out of college, mostly building on cache and mumps and they don't.
- ▶ 3:19:15 David Rosenthal They don't make mumps or cache.