cs2092 - MUMPS Programming Language/Database System - A Selection of Packages on CD

February 2009 Edition Copyright Arnold Kochman. Other copyrights also apply, in particular the General Public License. MUMPS (also referred to as M) is a general purpose programming language that supports a unique, hierarchical (or multidimensional)database facility. It was originally developed in the late 1960s and the acronym stands for the Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-programming System; however, some have restyled the acronym as standing for MUltifrontal Massively Parallel Solver. It has been widely used in clinical computing; its original purpose was to store tree structured medical records. The hierarchical or multidimensional data base is an important and interesting feature of MUMPS. It permits the construction of arbitrary trees by means of string indexed array references. Data may be stored at any node and there are functions to sequentially access siblings and children. I have included some documentation, where possible. In addition, packages contain documentation at varying levels of thoroughness, which you will see when you expand the archives in which they are stored. You may need one of the commonly available unzip utilities, such as PKUNZIP or WinZip or other program, depending on the type of archive.Naturally, I cannot give assurances about the suitability of any package for a particular purpose.

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