# MUMPS Examples **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 both GPL Mumps and GT.M. ## Prerequisites ### GPL Mumps - [The Mumps Programming Language](https://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/) - [Mumps Language Users' Guide](https://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/source/MUMPS-MDH/ReadMe.pdf) - [Mumps Language Quick Introduction & Tutorial](https://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/source/MUMPS-MDH/MumpsTutorial.pdf) ### GT.M - [MUMPS Technology Portal](http://mumps.cz/) --- ## Quick Setup ### GPL Mumps To install the open source distribution of the Mumps interpreter: cd /usr/local/src wget https://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/source/MUMPS-MDH/mumps-18.02.src.tar.gz tar -zxvf mumps-18.02.src.tar.gz cd mumpsc ./ConfigureNative.script ./BuildMumpsWithGlobalsInSingleUserNative.script The resulting interpreter is located in `/usr/bin/mumps`. mumps Mumps 17.30; Built: 16:05:53 Sep 23 2019 Float: double; DBMS: Native Stand Alone; Hardware math: yes; Int: int; Float digits: 6; Cache: 33; Block: 2048; FP Bits: N/A http://threadsafebooks.com/ Enter HALT to exit > write "Hello world" Hello world > halt EOF - goodbye ... To uninstall GPL Mumps: cd /usr/local/src/mumpsc make uninstall rm -f /usr/bin/mumps* ### GT.M To install GT.M on Debian based OS: apt-get install fis-gtm Set up the environment variables: source /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/fis-gtm/V6.3-003A_x86_64/gtmprofile Open the GT.M prompt: gtm GTM>write "Hello world" Hello world GTM>halt To uninstall GT.M: apt-get purge fis-gtm --- ## Run the Examples ### GPL Mumps Use the Open Mumps interpreter: mumps HelloWorld.m ### GT.M Copy the examples into your `~/.fis-gtm/V6.3-003A_x86_64/r` folder and run: mumps -run ^HelloWorld --- ## 1. The Very Basics ### [`HelloWorld.m`](https://github.com/programarivm/mumps-examples/blob/master/01-the-very-basics/HelloWorld.m) Hello world ### [`HelloWorldInLoop.m`](https://github.com/programarivm/mumps-examples/blob/master/01-the-very-basics/HelloWorldInLoop.m) Hello world Hello world Hello world Hello world Hello world Hello world Hello world Hello world Hello world Hello world ### [`HelloWorldInAnotherLoop.m`](https://github.com/programarivm/mumps-examples/blob/master/01-the-very-basics/HelloWorldInAnotherLoop.m) Hello world Hello world Hello world Hello world Hello world Hello world Hello world Hello world Hello world Hello world ### [`HelloWorldInNestedLoop.m`](https://github.com/programarivm/mumps-examples/blob/master/01-the-very-basics/HelloWorldInNestedLoop.m) 1:1 Hello world 1:2 Hello world 1:3 Hello world 1:4 Hello world 1:5 Hello world 2:1 Hello world 2:2 Hello world 2:3 Hello world 2:4 Hello world 2:5 Hello world ### [`ArithmeticOperations.m`](https://github.com/programarivm/mumps-examples/blob/master/01-the-very-basics/ArithmeticOperations.m) There were 7 apples, 8 pears and 9 oranges, a total of 24 fruits in a basket. Then, something happened: 1 apple, 2 pears and 0 oranges were eaten! Now there are 21 fruits in the basket, the average fruit value is 7. ### [`Arrays.m`](https://github.com/programarivm/mumps-examples/blob/master/01-the-very-basics/Arrays.m) Approaching the solar system: Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto September 2019: 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 Genealogical tree: Harry and Emily had Jack Associative array: Have you ever been to London? ### [`ArraysShortened.m`](https://github.com/programarivm/mumps-examples/blob/master/01-the-very-basics/ArraysShortened.m) Approaching the solar system: Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto September 2019: 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 Genealogical tree: Harry and Emily had Jack Associative array: Have you ever been to London? ## 2. User Defined Functions ### [`FactorialByReference.m`](https://github.com/programarivm/mumps-examples/blob/master/02-user-defined-functions/FactorialByReference.m) Enter n: 5 5! = 120 ### [`FactorialByValue.m`](https://github.com/programarivm/mumps-examples/blob/master/02-user-defined-functions/FactorialByValue.m) Enter n: 5 5! = 120 ### [`Fibonacci.m`](https://github.com/programarivm/mumps-examples/blob/master/02-user-defined-functions/Fibonacci.m) Enter n: 9 F(9) = 34 --- ### Contributions Would you help make this tutorial better? Contributions are welcome. - Feel free to send a pull request - Drop an email at info@programarivm.com with the subject "Open MUMPS by Example" - Leave me a comment on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/programarivm) - Say hello on [Google+](https://plus.google.com/+Programarivm) Many thanks.