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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Path: sparky!uunet!taumet!steve
- From: steve@taumet.com (Steve Clamage)
- Subject: Re: MUMPS programming language (history)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.152124.2674@taumet.com>
- Keywords: MUMPS M
- Organization: TauMetric Corporation
- References: <1992Jul26.173923.21066@kosman.uucp> <1992Jul27.145356.6637@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:21:24 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- gwh@elric.cs.mcgill.ca (Gene W. Homicki) writes:
-
- > MUMPS was first developed at the Laboratory of Computer Science at
- >the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1967. MUMPS (_M_assachusettes
- >_G_eneral _H_ospital _U_tility _M_ulti-_P_rogramming _S_ystem) ...
-
- Hmmm. That would make it MGHUMPS. One could (sort-of) pronounce it
- "mugwumps", in memory of some 19th-century politicos, or "mughumps",
- which is pretty undignified. Of course, "mumps" isn't so dignified,
- either.
-
-
- >Not surprisingly, the MUMPS community voted to allow for the use of "M"
- >instead of MUMPS.
-
- If future revisions of C are called D, E, etc, we will have to watch
- out for a name collision.
-
-
- Seriously, Gene, thanks for an interesting article about MUMPS.
- --
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- Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com
- Vice Chair, ANSI C++ Committee, X3J16
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