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Article #70Re: MUMPS programming language
From: Eric Hansen
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:23
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:23
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saleh@cse.uta.edu (Medhat Saleh AbdelHady) writes: > Anybody has an idea about a language called MUMPS ? I've never actually seen MUMPS, but nearly all the programmers where I work use a language called MIIS (pronounced like "meese", as in "I hate those meeces to pieces"). Apparently, MUMPS is very similar to MIIS. So, based on that, I'll tell you what I know about MIIS. It's nearly always an interpreted language, which goes by lines (like BASIC). It's also very cryptic - every keyword is a one-letter abbreviation. On the MIIS system here (which runs a hospital mainframe), every program has a code limit of 2k, and then 2k for heap/stack combined. It seems to be sort of slow, and not much fun to work with. Fortunately, I've just been hired here as the "new blood", with actual experience in legitamate languages. If you presently program in C, Pascal, or even Fortran, MIIS (and likely MUMPS) ios a real downgrade. - Eric
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!uwm.edu!rutgers!ub!galileo.cc.rochester.edu!prodigal.psych.rochester.edu!eric From: eric@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Eric Hansen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.os.unix,comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: MUMPS programming language Message-ID: <1992Jul27.132344.13422@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: 27 Jul 92 13:23:44 GMT References: <1992Jul25.065551.2643@cse.uta.edu> Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: prodigal.psych.rochester.edu