The Complete MUMPS: An Introduction and Reference Manual for the MUMPS Programming Language

MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System), or alternatively M, is a programming language created in the late 1960s, originally for use in the healthcare industry. It was designed for the production of multi-user database-driven applications. It predates C and most other popular languages in current usage, and has very different syntax and terminology. It was largely adopted during the 1970s and early 1980s in healthcare and financial information systems/databases, and continues to be used by many of the same clients today. It is currently used in electronic health record systems as well as by multiple banking networks and online trading/investment services.

Reviews:
The beauty of Mumps is its FAST storage and retrieval of data. This is a great book if you want to know how it works at the lowest level. If you use Cache' then you can access Mumps' wonderful database handling via VB, Web applications and ODBC. Its free for a single user on XP from the Intersystems web site, its powerful its flexible,it lets you create objects and use them. You can write spaghetti in every language but you can't write fast efficient database applications like you can in MUMPs on day one!

The book is a good reference of MUMPS as far as it goes, but lets face it MUMPS is a disease that should be vaccinated against. It is a programming language/database/operating system that has worse syntax than BASIC and encourages nothing more than unmaintainable code. Go out and buy yourself a good Java book instead and be part of the future instead of the dusty ancient past.

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