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On May 7, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Martijn Lievaart <m@rtij.nl.invlalid> wrote:

> On Sun, 05 May 2013 17:07:41 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
>=20
>> There *are* programming languages worse than PHP.  Have you ever =
tried
>> britescript?
>=20
> Have you tried MUMPS? :-)
>=20
> M4
>=20

Which one?  The original MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility =
Multi-Programming System), or the one that came out of Europe in the =
'90s and stole the MUMPS name (MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse =
direct Solver)?

I used both the original and its baby brother FOCAL which, considering =
that they ran on DEC PDP-7 (MUMPS) and DEC PDP-8 (FOCAL) systems with as =
little as 4k words of 18-bit memory on the PDP-7 and 8-bit memory on the =
PDP-8 is pretty spectacular.  They should be forgiven for a somewhat =
constrained list of key words and operations.=20

-Bill=