stimac@tymix.UUCP (Michael Stimac) (06/08/84)
<.....> Someone asked about MUMPS and what it is like. I had the good fortune to have an opportunity to learn to program in MUMPS a couple years ago. What is it like? Well, imagine something like Basic, only designed by some *good* programmers with a sense of humor. MUMPS is an integrated programming language / command language / data base access language, and it WORKS! What some people may consider a drawback is that it is interpreted. However, spiffy one-off programs can be written and debugged very quickly; and rather elaborate data base intense applications can be designed, implemented, and (importantly) modified with comparative ease. I am obviously a MUMPS enthusiast; I think it would be an ideal language for typical home/personal computer use. Michael D. Stimac (....hplabs!oliveb!tymix!stimac )