[Info-vax] Meditech in the news

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/7/2022 2:03 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 1/7/2022 1:57 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-01-06, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> On 1/6/2022 10:46 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> One may not like MUMPS and its variants.
>>>
>>> For those with an strong desire to try MUMPS aka M on VMS, then:
>>>
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/files/GT.M-Alpha-OpenVMS/V6.2-001/ 
>>
>> After a 5-minute read of the Mumps language syntax, I have come to
>> the conclusion that it makes TECO look user-friendly. :-)
>>
>> The total of my Mumps knowledge has been acquired over the last few
>> minutes and is based on the following:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS#Summary_of_key_language_features
>>
>> I really don't like the dynamic nature of variables and the dynamic
>> way they are created when first referenced. It makes Mumps look more
>> like a scripting language than an application programming language.
> 
> Some people may prefer to have the computer do as much of the work as 
> possible. While you may prefer something like Ada, many do not agree 
> with you.

General expressiveness of programming language aka ability to express
the logic in minimal code (low LoC/FP ratio) and robustness of
programming languages aka ability to catch errors at compile time
instead of runtime are rather independent.

Arne