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whitten
2079 days ago
Calling your language the "M programming Language", unfortunately, is ambiguous. One of the oldest langauges to claim the name, is the MUMPS programming language used in healthcare computing and in financial computing is also called M (
https://opensource.com/health/12/2/join-m-revolution
). The the Power Query Formula Programming Language is informally called the M programming language. Kiran S J of Bangalore has a language named the M Programming language (
https://github.com/kiransj/m-programming-language
) The Cache programming language is a super set of the M programming language (
https://cedocs.intersystems.com/latest/csp/docbook/Doc.View....
). Microsoft has a modeling language called the M Programming language (
http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2009/02/1...
) There is the M# programming language (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_Sharp
) and the M programming language for language for HardWare description from MentorGraphics and The language for Mathematica, was called M, and now I think, is called the Wolfram Programming Language. (
http://wiki.c2.com/?ProgrammingLanguageNamingPatterns
)
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AshamedCaptain
2079 days ago
Doesn't matter. From a quick glance, no one would be able to distinguish MUMPS monstrosities from the monstrosities that are the tax .m files. Maybe this M and MUMPS are even related.
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