Every time they have an "X language is terrible" link, people slag off MUMPS. I program in a modern variant of MUMPS almost every day. It can be obfuscated as

Every time they have an "X language is terrible" link, people slag off MUMPS. I program in a modern variant of MUMPS almost every day. It can be obfuscated as in the examples, but with proper programming practice (conventions for declaring variables, function names, not using goto where not appropriate, etc.) it's really not all that bad. What I miss the most from other programming languages are features like public/private variables/methods, objects/classes + inheritance, type-checking, first-class functions, etc. (It does support try-catch and exception handling, however.) Even the above gripes aren't entirely 100%, as Intersystems extended MUMPS to have object-oriented features with Cache Objectscript, however, no one uses these so as not to be locked in to one vendor's non-standard implementation of the lagnguage. When comparing to say, Fortran-77, there's just no contest in my mind- out of everything I've programmed in, including VB, I hate Fortran by far the most.