This is a great question. MUMPS traditionally have been a container type language with a self-contained instance where the data and programs are built into the

This is a great question. MUMPS traditionally have been a container type language with a self-contained instance where the data and programs are built into the container. The language requirements that math operations have to be exact to fifteen significant digits make it a good base for financial systems, and the flexible sparse data structures using multi-indexing by strings of characters allow it to be used in medical systems. Both of these types of applications require high availability and self-repair of faults, (effectively 24/7/365) with high response time. Static code analysis is sometimes possible with the understanding that there are language elements that require lazy evaluation of expressions, and a dynamic symbol table of variables, as the language allows for explicit removal of variables from the symbol table. Unusually for the syntax of a lot of languages this is a language where whitespace is significant, which makes syntax parsing and checking much more attainable. As to vulnerability scanning and security, there is no language element which allows direct memory manipulation, such as the C pointer, and all I/O has protections against buffer overflows built into those commands. Passing parameters to subroutines has constraints that mitigate many security exploits as well. The language supports a high degree of backward compatibility and static semantics whereby old code works in the same way it always has, precluding an attack using changing semantics to take over a system. The Department of Veterans Affairs has a toolset that facilitates code analysis (^XINDEX) and distribution of code and data (KIDS), with other programming environments providing other toolsets. There is a lot more than this about the language. If you have any questions, I'd gladly answer them.