Category:MUMPS

MUMPS
This programming language may be used to instruct a computer to perform a task.

Typing:	Untyped
See Also:	MUMPS on the HOPL

Listed below are all of the tasks on Rosetta Code which have been solved using MUMPS.

Visit the Google group/ Usenet newsgroupcomp.lang.mumps for discussions about this language.

Visit Wikipedia for a general description.

See http://71.174.62.16/Demo/AnnoStd for details about the language.

Standard MUMPS has one data type (strings) and some dialects (Cache, MSM, IRIS) add a second data type (objects). A variable can be unsubscripted or not, and the subscripted variables form a sparse n-tree, or associative arrays or sparse multidimensional hierarchical key-value pair with keys as strings and values as strings. MUMPS doesn't have traditional arrays, but has an array syntax that manipulates trees as if they were arrays, using indexing to access nodes of the tree. You can create a tree that can have unlimited levels of branching, with keys and values associated with each node in the tree. Similarly, while the language doesn't have lists, you can mimic lists by creating strings with a consistent character (or string) as a delimiter separating the entries. The Cache and IRIS dialects also support explicit List operations and data structures as values.