I took a MUMPS course at University (my professor at the time at UC Davis was one of the language maintainers IIRC; a fellow named Dick Walters. It was bafflin

I took a MUMPS course at University (my professor at the time at UC Davis was one of the language maintainers IIRC; a fellow named Dick Walters. It was baffling in spots, but the M database was kind of neat. Overall, someone else in this thread said it best "You can easily do lots of terrible things in Mumps, but those things are usually more straightforward than the terrible things you do in other languages. You can also do elegant things, though a little less straightforwardly."