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MUMPS Programming

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MUMPS is a programming language. It is named after the acronym Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming Systems.

If you have programmed before and would like to see a little bit of how MUMPS works and is different from other programming languages, you can get an overview.

Contents

Table of contents

Beginning MUMPS

Basic Concepts
Variables
Simple Input and Output
Simple math in MUMPS
Program Flow
Procedures and Functions
Libraries
Standard libraries
Further math in MUMPS
Basics of Compilation
Exercises

In-depth MUMPS ideas

Pointers and relationship to arrays
String Manipulation
Programming Structure and Style
MUMPS complex types
Memory Management
Error Catching
Variable Indirection
closures and Xecution of data

MUMPS and beyond

Language Overloading and Extensions
Combining Languages
Commented Source Code Library