An Open Source Developer’s View of the “M” Language
Interesting viewpoint on using “M” as a programming language!
“Are you a geek?
If so, driving the future of healthcare is now within your grasp.
What do you have to do?
Learn the M programming language, and teach it to others.
What’s the M programming language?
The M programming language is also known as MUMPS. Which stands for Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System.
M is a multi-user, strongly imperative language designed to manipulate and control massive databases. It is used in the high availability, high reliability niche of the computer market—which includes banking and hospitals. It provides simple data abstractions, in which all data values are strings of characters, and all data can be structured as multiple dimensional arrays. M data structures are sparse, using strings of characters as subscripts. M is itself a language combined with a database engine.”