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What most histories get wrong about MUMPS's first standard

14 pointsby Rochus07/13/202610 commentsview on HN

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odyssey7today at 3:10 AM

If you are a young person, under no circumstances would I recommend that you acccept a job working with MUMPS.

You won’t be able to learn the industry best practices or the modern tools, because MUMPS predates them, and your career will suffer for it.

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NooneAtAll3today at 6:14 AM

primer (https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/blob/main/docs/MUMPS_...) is an interesting read

I wish someone made something similar for Forth. Too many times I encountered something explained about forth that itself needed explanation for operators

triyambakamtoday at 3:21 AM

So... it looks like this was written by Claude. I am less motivated to actually read it.