Questions tagged [mumps]

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How do you safely refactor in a language with dynamic scope?

For those of you who have the good fortune not to work in a language with dynamic scope, let me give you a little refresher on how that works. Imagine a pseudo-language, called "RUBELLA", that behaves like this: function foo() { print(x); // not…
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What flavor of MUMPS does InterSystems Caché descend from?

I've been reading through an old-ish book on MUMPS ("M Programming", by Walters) to try and get some historical perspective on the language. The book was published in 1997, and provides the following list of then-extant vendors (I don't know whether…
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