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- From: eric@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Eric Hansen)
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- Subject: Re: MUMPS programming language
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.132344.13422@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 13:23:44 GMT
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- saleh@cse.uta.edu (Medhat Saleh AbdelHady) writes:
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- > Anybody has an idea about a language called MUMPS ?
-
- I've never actually seen MUMPS, but nearly all the programmers where I
- work use a language called MIIS (pronounced like "meese", as in "I hate
- those meeces to pieces"). Apparently, MUMPS is very similar to MIIS.
- So, based on that, I'll tell you what I know about MIIS. It's nearly
- always an interpreted language, which goes by lines (like BASIC). It's
- also very cryptic - every keyword is a one-letter abbreviation. On
- the MIIS system here (which runs a hospital mainframe), every program
- has a code limit of 2k, and then 2k for heap/stack combined. It
- seems to be sort of slow, and not much fun to work with. Fortunately,
- I've just been hired here as the "new blood", with actual experience in
- legitamate languages. If you presently program in C, Pascal, or even
- Fortran, MIIS (and likely MUMPS) ios a real downgrade.
-
- - Eric
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