Season's greetings and a Prosperous 2007. I found this from a link on vintage databases which is a more recent publication. Hadn't seen this reference being posted here before..... Who is Thomas H. Martin of Georgia, anyone?
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2005/12/23/mumps_m_prgramming/ > > Mumps, now known as M, is a widely used language in American > health care. > > By David Norfolk > <http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2005/12/23/mumps_m_prgramming/> > > → More by this author > <http://search.regdeveloper.co.uk/?author=David%20Norfolk> > Published Friday 23rd December 2005 12:18 GMT > > I have a soft spot for “legacy” languages – and I, for one, like > getting legacies. Back in my day, we expected to learn new languages > for different projects (learning Simula > <http://staff.um.edu.mt/jskl1/talk.html> for a port simulation, for > instance, made a lot more sense than trying to “standardise” on COBOL; > or even FORTRAN, the usual simulation language then). So I was > interested when a Register reader, Thomas H. Martin of Georgia, USA, > emailed in praise of M, once known as MUMPS. > > M is a high-level operating language with extremely strong data > manipulation capabilities, Martin explains. “M was originally started > at the Massachusetts General Hospital as a health care language, > similar to Basic in being totally interpretive and compiled at run > time,” he says, but “today M is pre-compiled and, in today’s > implementations, extremely fast”. > <more> Molly
