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Minicomputers were introduced to the computing world primarily as process controllers with very little supporting software. As we at Duke University began to use the minicomputer for database-oriented functions, we wrote a number of generalized programs in assembly language1 that, over time, evolved into a computer-programming language.2 Continued development of the language has occurred during the past 13 years as our applications needs have grown.
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Straube, M.J., Hammond, W.E., Stead, W.W. (1989). The GEMISCH Programming Language. In: Orthner, H.F., Blum, B.I. (eds) Implementing Health Care Information Systems. Computers and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3488-3_22
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