jsgrahamus53

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   by jsgrahamus53 10y ago

   I have no experience with Erlang, and about 30 years with MUMPS. Some MUMPS can be hard to read, and some is not. Seems to me it's a matter of how well it was written and the experience of the reader. Kind of like other languages.
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   by jsgrahamus53 10y ago

   The VA took MUMPS and created a DBMS out of it, which would allow one to define the schema and then use utilities to automatically update indices. It is much nicer when the system remembers to do that for you. There were gotchas in the lang
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   by jsgrahamus53 10y ago

   Modern use of MUMPS mandates that each subroutine use the N(EW) command to instantiate its own versions of variables. If that was done above, '1' would have been printed instead of '5'.
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   by jsgrahamus53 10y ago

   I started coding in MUMPS 35 years ago, and have continued doing so for most of the years since. For my first 8 years I used a version called MIIS, which was developed by Meditech. MIIS allowed 2 KB symbol space per job and 2 KB code space