The MUMPS Primer: An Introduction and Tutorial for the 1976 Standard Programming Language
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Rochus
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This article is a comprehensive primer and tutorial for the 1976 MUMPS programming language standard, authored by Rocus Keller. It covers the history of MUMPS — created in 1966 at Massachusetts General Hospital by Octo Barnett, Neil Pappalardo, and Curtis Marble to enable real-time multi-terminal patient data access on affordable hardware. The document serves as both an introduction and educational guide to the language, which is faithfully implemented in the open-source rochus-keller/MUMPS project.
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· 2 pulledIn 1966, at the Laboratory of Computer Science at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Octo Barnett, Neil Pappalardo, and Curtis Marble created a programming language called MUMPS — the Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System.
MUMPS was born from a practical need: hospitals required a system where doctors and nurses could simultaneously access and update patient data from multiple terminals, in real time, on affordable hardware.
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