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by brudgers 3780 days ago
With all those positives, would you use it?
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Didn't you say that MUMPS is an obsolete or generally weird format, not that it's something you wouldn't use?

But yes, I use it, both professionally and personally. Legacy MUMPS is not pleasant -- the VA's code looks like someone left their telegraph out in the rain -- but the language is astonishingly good at string-handling, mostly due to certain constructs that make it very hard to translate into normal languages.