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TDWTF had an article about MUMPS that stands out in my memory [1] When I see COBOL fixed width data at my workplace, I just think about that article and thank
by wernsey 9y ago
TDWTF had an article about MUMPS that stands out in my memory [1]
When I see COBOL fixed width data at my workplace, I just think about that article and thank my lucky stars.
[1] http://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS http://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS
- ndh2 9y agoPlease tag this as NSFL.
- shliachtx 9y agoIf I'm not mistaken that is about Epic, but they didn't write the name to prevent lawsuits.
- whitten 9y agoMUMPS really isn't a bad programming language. It has certain characteristics like allowing incredibly terse code, with abbreviations for all the commands and single letter variable names, but the trade-off of a NoSQL hierarchical datastore acting as variables to the programs with string values and string subscripts on arrays, hiearchical inter-process locking, high level variable management and garbage collection, run time code and variable evaluation, and other advantages. Modern MUMPS systems have high level database management systems as well.