Comment by kweingar
3 months ago
The MUMPS database is wild. When I was working in MUMPS, it was so easy and fun to whip up an internal tool to share with my coworkers. You don't have to give any special thought at all to persistence, so you're able to stay in the flow of thinking about your business logic.
But as you said, the language itself is almost unbearable to use.
I had a professor who is responsible for a lot of the more "modern" MUMPS stuff (lets be real, MUMPS is OLD!). Guy was pretty unbearable too.