That plus the automatic capture of the error trap of the environment is a BIG plus in improving support. No blank stare when something fails. There is much involved in providing environmental information about what is happening in the environment at run-time. Plus MUMPS being a very symbolic nature, this buys a lot of platform portability rarely found in other languages. To name a few.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruben Safir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] No globals allowed > On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 17:15, Gregory Woodhouse wrote: > > If you are not allowed to user persistent data structures (i.e., > > globals) what is the most convincing case you can make for the > > utility of MUMPS vs. other programming languages? > > > > Well > > VISTA is already written in it. That's one thing it has going for it. > > Ruben > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
