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Re:The Mumps Programming Language by jacquesm on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:39PM (#13862121)
I've yet to see a MUMPS code base that would qualify as 'elegant', do you have any pointers?

I'd love to see how it should be done, the only things I've seen are examples of how things (any things!) really should not be done.

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Re:The Mumps Programming Language by mabynogy on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:09PM (#13862935)
https://github.com/robtweed/EWD/tree/master/m_apache
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Re:The Mumps Programming Language by raverbashing on Monday March 13, 2017 @07:26PM (#13863536)
This mess makes perl look readable

Thanks for proving without a doubt that Mumps belongs in the trash can

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Re:The Mumps Programming Language by jacquesm on Monday March 13, 2017 @09:43PM (#13864293)
You probably won't believe it but this is actually very clean MUMPS code. If that's the shining example then you now have a bit of a glimpse of what the bad stuff looks like.
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Re:The Mumps Programming Language by jacquesm on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:25PM (#13863085)
I hope that wasn't meant sarcastically?
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Re:The Mumps Programming Language by mabynogy on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:55AM (#13865588)
No, it wasn't.
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Re:The Mumps Programming Language by roywiggins on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:39PM (#13862681)
I witnessed a DSL for querying a MUMPS database. It used MUMPS to parse a DSL, generating more MUMPS to then query the MUMPS db.

I'm not really criticizing because I'm not sure there's an elegant way to do it, but I fled screaming.

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