[ratbeard]

Or Epic healthcare in Madison, that was my first job out of college and continues to grow at an insane rate.

MUMPS was a kinda cool language - I liked it a lot better than VB6 which the GUI was written in. Every line had to start with a command like 'set' or 'do', which was abbreviated as 's' or 'd' which looked pretty gnarly. The `for` loop syntax there was a difference between 1 or 2 spaces which after the 'f(or)' :o There was a max file size and filename and function limit of like 6 characters, so things were named pretty cryptically. It had a built in object database and basic array and hash datastructures which were neat though.

[cordite]

I'm there right now.

I think the only reasonable alternative would be something like erlang at this time.

I see M as still used because it is without fail very predictable in resource usage and behavior, and with certain patterns, not prone to fail or crash. It also can be updated in runtime without having users have to restart or reconnect for most cases.

I suggest Erlang, because it has the similar desired behavior for error isolation and predictability.

[epmatsw]

I left there a while back, and I recently tried installing GT.M for old times sake. It's not really any fun without Chronicles unfortunately