diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 66ebfd7..c7607be 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,15 @@ # Open MUMPS by Example -> **MUMPS** ("Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System"), or **M**, is a general-purpose computer programming language originally designed in 1966 for the healthcare industry. Its differentiating feature is its "built-in" database, enabling high-level access to disk storage using simple symbolic program variables and subscripted arrays; similar to the variables used by most languages to access main memory. [Read more...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS) +**MUMPS** ("Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System"), or **M**, is a general-purpose computer programming language originally designed in 1966 for the healthcare industry. Its differentiating feature is its "built-in" database, enabling high-level access to disk storage using simple symbolic program variables and subscripted arrays; similar to the variables used by most languages to access main memory. [Read more...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS) + +The implementations currently available are: + +- [Intersystems (Caché)](http://www.intersystems.com/) +- [FIS (GT.M)](http://www.fisglobal.com/products-technologyplatforms-gtm) +- [MUMPS Database and Language by Ray Newman](http://sourceforge.net/projects/mumps/) +- [Open Mumps](http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/) + +The examples in this tutorial are run with GPL Mumps. ## Prerequisites