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Comment by z3ugma

2 years ago

I quite liked working in M (fka MUMPS) when I had the chance to.

It's terse. Language commands can be abbreviated to one letter, and the syntax is whitespace-aware, so you can fit a lot of code on one computer screen, take it in, and review it.

If you're curious, I wrote a tutorial for it at https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/m/

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rpbiwer2  2 years ago

I always liked the abbreviated commands in M and always wondered why no other programming language (that I've used anyway) has adopted it.

  • nradov  2 years ago

    You could probably write an editor plug in that would abbreviate commands for coding and display, while still using the complete commands for the underlying source code files.