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GPL 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...
The implementations currently available are:
The examples in this tutorial are run with GPL Mumps.
Prerequisites
- The Mumps Programming Language
- Mumps Language Users' Guide
- Mumps Language Quick Introduction & Tutorial
Quick Setup
Download the open source distribution of the Mumps interpreter and run the following commands:
tar -zxvf mumps-18.02.src.tar.gz
cd mumpsc
sudo ./ConfigureNative.script
sudo ./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
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Enter HALT to exit
> write "Hello world"
Hello world
> halt
EOF - goodbye ...
1. The Very Basics
hello-world.mps
$ mumps 01-the-very-basics/hello-world.mps
Hello world
hello-world-in-a-loop.mps
$ mumps hello-world-in-a-loop.mps
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
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"
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Many thanks.