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1 total messages Started by Paul Robinson Mon, 06 Apr 1992 08:52

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Author: Paul Robinson
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 08:52

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 > From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
 > Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
 > Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
 >
 > long patient studies.
 >
 >> MUMPS was developed by Mass Gen Hosp and widely used for a variety
 >>       of applications. MUMPS is botha a database and a language
 >
 > The language is an extended BASIC, as I recall.

 
No way!  MUMPS has nothing in common with basic.  The command structure 
is different, the philosophy is different, and the way it operates 
is different.  It does have an "immediate" mode where some commands 
are executed when typed, but so does APL for that matter.
 
If you want to claim that MUMPS is an extended Basic, you might as 
well claim that BASIC is an extended ALGOL, since it gets the FOR 
statement for looping, which started with ALGOL.
 
That's an old joke in a way; the constructs a language use show its 
roots.  Languages using DO for looping come from FORTRAN.  Languages 
that use FOR for looping trace back to ALGOL.  Languages that use 
paragraphs trace back to the old "toxic waste" of COBOL.

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