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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (379743)4/22/2008 5:10:11 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1578494
 
"That they are now used interchangeably does not give recognition to the history of the language."

Sigh. It was called M from fairly early on.

But, whatever.

"The fact is that M, MUMPS, wtf you want to call it, is an archaic piece of work"

It was developed in the 1960s. Old languages like FORTRAN and COBOL have aspects. But, languages are tools. They aren't a fashion statement.

" but I'm not aware of any open-source version. "

CPRS-R.
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