sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) (12/26/88)
Marcus S. Lewis (mlewis@unocss.UUCP) writes: >BTW, any person hiring >a MUMPS programmer is likely more concerned with the "MUMPS mindset" than >familiarity with the actual application. "Good programmers" who don't >have the mindset to deal with teh MUMPS paradigm make lousy MUMPS programmers. This reminds me of when I after my first year at the University was a summer practicant at the hospital in Lund where they used MUMPS. My impression was that not only MUMPS discouraged what is known as "structured programming", its syntax(*) even made it impossible. When I said this to one in the ordinary staff, the comment was: "Structured programming, we don't occupy ourselves with that here". I hope this is not what you mean with "MUMPS mindset". (*) Unless the langauge has changed since I played with it, this is the langauge where indentation was a syntax error. -- Erland Sommarskog ENEA Data, Stockholm This signature is not to be quoted. sommar@enea.se