> I'll add that Wikipedia's take here is a little optimistic: perhaps it was true when MUMPS was invented that it could use one line to accomplish what would re

> I'll add that Wikipedia's take here is a little optimistic: perhaps it was true when MUMPS was invented that it could use one line to accomplish what would require "5 to 10 times as many characters" in other languages, but MUMPS's language constructs are by and large about as low level as assembly with a couple exceptions, so this is definitely no longer the case if we're comparing it to modern high level languages. Eh, as someone who's used it professionally, I wouldn't compare it to assembly. It's more like Awk - fairly concise for a good deal of its intended uses (linewise text manipulation for Awk, trees for MUMPS) and horribly clunky for most everything else.