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by frr149 1107 days ago
MUMPS: A lousy language with a brilliant data structure
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You can still use it with a more modern syntax with GT.M and YottaDB databases, both open source and commercially supported.
I'll check it out, thanks!
If you think Python's significant whitespace is bad, MUMPS is far worse. Seriously, go look up how to write an indefinite MUMPS loop.