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B-203143 1 (1983-07-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobachhw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4 tr~ UNITk STATE GENERAL AccouNTNGOFFICE W ~~WAHINGTON, D.C. flb 314[ B-203143 The Ionorable Portney I, IStark Houae oftpreentetiyus Bear Mr. Starki In your letter oJf April 29, you asked us (or ueneral L:uomeiits on the eultabiltty of the MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Ut|iity Multi-Programming !.lystem) languaye for Government aqerin ite.. AithougE wel do not use MUMPS here at the General Accountlng eftice based on our knowledge or the language it seems to have a le i certein medical areas4 Hoever, we do not Londider it auitabl, (or geneoralized use in the Government. Unde4r the aeina of the National enter tor Health Servicea Research MUMPS was developed in 1966 at asachusetts Goene-ral Ilopttal for use on Digital Equipwent CorporatLon Iinloputers, priqarily at a means tar building data bases and querying hospital metdcal records. In 1572, the Aumeritcan National sLdards Insti- tomte beguil a process which led to the approval of a staidard for the 4nguage, MUPS is one of tan A'tferican Natlnal Strndard lengweges. In 1976p thp KURPS Users Group asked the National Bureau of Stajdar a to orm a task C~rCO for the purpose of makin MUMrPS a Federal information Processing Standard. As you know, the arooks Act (Pr. 89-306) gave the Department of Commerce rasponaLbllit for pproving standards for the Federal Government. Thv RILIeau 9Lres its official seal of approval to languages that (1) have areas of application for which there is a Government-wide requLtreinent, J2) have portable code, (3) are maintainable, 14) have an :asured sup- ply *C tnterpreters/coipilers, and (5) require minimal training -cots lPIUee they are well specified and widely known. When oprnmnt * gencte do not adhere to the Federal standard, they are supped to request a waiver tror the Bureau, At the time ot the MUMPS request, only one language (COHOL) had been destgnatod as a Federal standard. The I uxu a position ws In bract, that making KV8 a Federal atandard would not be feaible beues of changing nature ot data base systenor, and

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