In 1972, many MUMPS users attended a conference which standardized the then fractured language, and created the MUMPS Users Group and MUMPS Development Committee (MDC) to do so.

MUMPS has no data types.

MUMPS is widely used in financial applications.

They also worked on the MGM MUMPS implementation.

There are also several open source implementations of MUMPS, including some research projects.

Even the earliest machines running MUMPS supported multiple jobs running at the same time.

Some aspects of MUMPS can be traced from Rand Corporation's JOSS through BBN's TELCOMP and STRINGCOMP.

At about the same time DEC launched DSM 11 (Digital Standard MUMPS) for the PDP 11.

The second revision of the ANSI standard for MUMPS (X11.1 1984) was approved on November 15, 1984.

Since 2005, the use of MUMPS has been either in the form of GT.M or InterSystems Caché.

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The original MUMPS system was, like Unix a few years later, built on a spare DEC PDP 7.

Thus, every MUMPS command or function name could be abbreviated from one to three letters in length, e.g.

In contrast to languages in the C or Wirth traditions, some space characters between MUMPS statements are significant.

1970s By the early 1970s, there were many and varied implementations of MUMPS on a range of hardware platforms.

They extended and built on the MUMPS language, naming the new language MIIS (and later, another language named MAGIC).

Indirection in many contexts, codice_15 can be used, and effectively substitutes the contents of VBL into another MUMPS statement.

The Annotated MUMPS Language Standard, showing the evolution of the language and differences between versions of the ANSI standard.

The portability was soon useful, as MUMPS was shortly adapted to a DEC PDP 15, where it lived for some time.

The most notable of these is Mumps II, by Dr. Kevin O'Kane (Professor Emeritus, University of Northern Iowa) and students' project.

The newest implementation of MUMPS, released in April 2002, is an MSM derivative called M21 from the Real Software Company of Rugby, UK.

The name became M on December 8, 1995 with the approval of ANSI X11.1 1995 Both M and MUMPS are officially accepted names.

Multi User Multi Tasking Multi Processor MUMPS supports multiple simultaneous users and processes even when the underlying operating system does not (e.g., MS DOS).

The most recent standard (ISO IEC 11756 1999, re affirmed on 25 June 2010), still mentions both M and MUMPS as officially accepted names.

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