On May 7, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Martijn Lievaart <m...@rtij.nl.invlalid> wrote:
> On Sun, 05 May 2013 17:07:41 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > >> There *are* programming languages worse than PHP. Have you ever tried >> britescript? > > Have you tried MUMPS? :-) > > M4 > Which one? The original MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System), or the one that came out of Europe in the '90s and stole the MUMPS name (MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver)? I used both the original and its baby brother FOCAL which, considering that they ran on DEC PDP-7 (MUMPS) and DEC PDP-8 (FOCAL) systems with as little as 4k words of 18-bit memory on the PDP-7 and 8-bit memory on the PDP-8 is pretty spectacular. They should be forgiven for a somewhat constrained list of key words and operations. -Bill -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
