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Re: MUMPS

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Post by magicalhippo » Sat, Jun 14, 2025, 3:50 PM UTC

koakuma-chan wrote: post #35

exizt88 wrote: post #6

> OPERATORS: No precedence, executed left to right, parenthesize as desired. 2+3*10 yields 50. How do you even come up with this?

Who came up with math precedence? Why is multiplication done first?

One could argue it's the logical way, as multiplication is introduced as repeated addition.

Re: MUMPS

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Post by robertclaus » Sat, Jun 14, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC

The description of MUMPS always misses what working with it directly is actually like (at least for me). It feels more like a custom OS than a programming language. Code being stored alongside data so changes apply live in the system, writing schemas and indexes by hand, and the difficulties combining it with other standard programming tools make it a fairly unique experience in 2025.

Re: MUMPS

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 14, 2025, 4:15 PM UTC

BeFlatXIII wrote: post #20

telecomhacker wrote: post #16

Part-time MUMPS programmer here for a health system in NYC. I still love writing in it. The rates are way better than other eco-systems (e.g. Python, Java, blah blah) , probably because the eco-system isn't diluted with low-wage workers from India/China. This is because 95%+ of Epic/Ex-Epic employees are American. I would even argue it is the patriotic language of choice due to that reason. Expected pay of 85-120/hou…

Makes me curious about getting MUMPS to run locally on a Mac. I had great fun with it 15 years ago.

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Re: MUMPS

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Post by niemandhier » Sun, Jun 15, 2025, 12:24 PM UTC

This has some similarities to SAPs ADAP.

Re: MUMPS

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Post by larodi » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 3:21 PM UTC

My mother used to program this DB when she was pregnant with me in the 1980s. But it was a stolen version for the communist block, known as ДАИМС, and they actually shipped an EHCR system, which must've been like 40 years ahead of its time. Then СССР collapsed and all dev went down. Sadly, she didn't continue pursuing a careering in programming.