Comment by jacquesm

I would have loved to follow such a course. Whatever I know and remember of it was learned 'the hard way' by reading code and digging into whatever problems it exhibited, not exactly a fun experience. But I have to admit: some of it was extremely clever and if you let go of the Unix file based mindset for a bit it actually was an interesting and refreshing experience. But I didn't think MUMPS was future proof enough to warrant investing more time into it and the only reason it still hangs on is for the same reason COBOL still does: large codebases that businesses rely on even if there isn't anybody there that still fully understands them.