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Article #4896MUMPS (was Re: Wild computer language names)
From: dr... Dan Ross
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 23:00
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 23:00
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In article <59...@bbn.BBN.COM> cos...@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes: >mnee...@iiic.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) writes: >}In article <15...@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tn...@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes: [ discussion about MUMPS ] MUMPS still is alive and well; it is available for PCs as an OS+language, and for use under UNIX and VMS from several vendors. Imagine a PS/2 or 386PC with 20 users...all running MUMPS. The ability to use strings or numbers as subscripts (as in awk, and allowing multidimensional use) works well for quickly developing data-manipulation routines. (My summer job involved programming in MUMPS.) Another wild name is GNU's "bison," derived, of course, from "yacc". Dan Ross dr...@cs.wisc.edu
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!uupsi!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!cambizola.cs.wisc.edu!dross From: dr...@cambizola.cs.wisc.edu (Dan Ross) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: MUMPS (was Re: Wild computer language names) Message-ID: <11437@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 10 Oct 90 23:00:11 GMT References: <15893@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <10402@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> <59833@bbn.BBN.COM> Sender: ne...@spool.cs.wisc.edu Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 17 Posted: Thu Oct 11 00:00:11 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit