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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.misc
Subject: MUMPS (was: Professional Programmers)
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Date: 25 Dec 88 21:37:07 GMT
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Marcus S. Lewis (mlewis@unocss.UUCP) writes:
>BTW, any person hiring
>a MUMPS programmer is likely more concerned with the "MUMPS mindset" than
>familiarity with the actual application.  "Good programmers" who don't
>have the mindset to deal with teh MUMPS paradigm make lousy MUMPS programmers.

This reminds me of when I after my first year at the University was a
summer practicant at the hospital in Lund where they used MUMPS. My
impression was that not only MUMPS discouraged what is known as "structured
programming", its syntax(*) even made it impossible. When I said this to
one in the ordinary staff, the comment was: "Structured programming,
we don't occupy ourselves with that here". I hope this is not what you
mean with "MUMPS mindset".

(*) Unless the langauge has changed since I played with it, this is
the langauge where indentation was a syntax error.
-- 
Erland Sommarskog
ENEA Data, Stockholm              This signature is not to be quoted.
sommar@enea.se