Those of us who have used MUMPS for a long time generally find it easier to read programming constructs without the added verbosity of fully spelling out the standard fixed elements of the language, but spelling them out certainly helps make it more readable for people who are new to the language.
To address the needs of both groups, I wrote a web based MUMPS source code viewer that displays the standard elements of the language in the form of your choice, regardless of how they were written. I happen to strongly prefer lowercase and terse while others prefer ALLCAPS and some prefer verbose and mixedcase. Since it is a web based viewer, all the references from one subroutine to another are rendered as hypertext links so that you can easily follow the logical connections between them. You could at one time access it on the worldvista wiki to view any of the routines in the OpenVista distribution there. I think it is still there but I have forgotten the URL. Kevin wrote: >M is made more visually complicated because people love to use "F" >instead of "FOR", "S" instead of "SET" etc. > >I code all in full command names and make code that looks quite >similar to other languages. > >Kevin > > >On 8/12/05, Alberto Odor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have been able to link it to my GT.M installation and open the .m files. >> They look terribly complicated. IHAVE TO LEARN MUMPS. >> >> Alberto --------------------------------------- Jim Self Systems Architect, Lead Developer VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
