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Hello,
     does anyone have some information on MicroMumps for the ST?
I know there is a CP/M version of Mumps which could be used via a
CP/M emulator but I rather prefer a real 68000-based Mumps interpreter
for the ST.

{For those interested: Mumps is a real old oddity among computer languages.
 It is interpreted or mixed interpreted/compiled, has a terrible syntax and
 program structure but a beautiful tree-based way of dynamically storing data.
 Examples:
    MYARR(1) is an element of an array in memory,
   ^MYARR(1) is an element of an array on disk, no OPEN/CLOSE etc. needed!
 Subscripts can be strings: ^OBJECTS("HUMANS","John","FATHER")="Bill"
 so you can build a database or knowledge representation system rather fast.
 Other features are powerful string manipulation/pattern matching  and, in
 the original language definition,  multi-using + multi-tasking.
 Adherents can often be recognized by their religious attitude (cf. APL, Lisp,
 Unix monks), meditating on single-line system exploders. }

                                           Lambert Schomaker
                                           SCHOMAKER@HNYKUN53  (BITNET)
                                           Nijmegen, The Netherlands.