Revised 2016. An introduction to the Mumps language and programming guide
for the Mumps Programming Language.
Mumps is a simple, easily learned, powerful
database and string manipulation language which is ideal for both desktop and
server applications.
Mumps began life in the mid 60’s as a general purpose
programming language designed for medical applications. It stood apart
from other languages of the time by supporting an easily manipulated hierarchical
database, flexible string handling support, pattern matching, and a simple,
easily learned syntax similar to Basic.
The unique Mumps global array database has
effectively unlimited sparse, string indexed, multi-dimensional arrays. Get it here:
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