[bcaine]

My first ever internship in software engineering (in 2012) was in the MUMPS world! I worked on a project for a contracting company building an automated testing framework (in python) to interface with and allow the VA to refactor their massive VistA EHR that was entirely written in MUMPS.

The fact that the system works at all is total magic to me, with hundreds of subsystems and millions of lines of code, all with the same shared global variable pool. I remember having to spend a few days digging through hundreds of pages of kernel documentation (it has its own kernel!) to simply find out how to write to a file..

What you can remember seems largely correct. I think commands and syntax were case insensitive, and variables were case sensitive too? All kinds of insanity like that.

[jxramos]

Sounds like a job for Symantec Designs to get a translation from. Although I wonder if it would even be lucrative for them to specialize in an obscure language like this, but maybe!

[jxramos]

My bad, make that "Semantic Designs"