MUMPS (the programming language not the disease) found a niche in the medical world where it was developed. The name is an acronym for Massachusetts General Hos

MUMPS (the programming language not the disease) found a niche in the medical world where it was developed. The name is an acronym for Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System where it was developed. There is an ANSI standard for the language: see http://71.174.62.16/Demo/AnnoStd http://71.174.62.16/Demo/AnnoStd, for example. I worked with the MUMPS Standard Committee trying make the language better while simultaneously trying to minimize the problems moving the large base of existing code to the new Standard MUMPS. MUMPS was filled with hidden gotchas. For example, in some early versions, trailing blanks in statements were significant. The Wikipedia MUMPS article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS) provides some insight into the language and its genesis. The inclusion of a key-value store embedded into the language was a significant innovation and helped the language to be successful.