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A comprehensive resource for using the MUMPS programming language for database management. MUMPS is the standard for database management in the U.S. Veterans Administration. Appendixes. ... Read more

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A Useful Introduction to the MUMPS language
Speaking from the standpoint of a professional MUMPS programmer, I would like to point out that I originally learned MUMPS using only this book and the source code of the MUMPS-based operating system used at my place of work.I come from a background of C/C++ and ASM programming and found this book to be more concise, more readable, and far easier to understand than almost any other programming guide that I've ever owned or read.

That said, I'll move on to the poorer points of the publication: firstly, this book is not altogether complete in its presentation of aspects of the language.While most of the basic functions and commands are covered in decent detail, the book does not see fit to include some of the more advanced (and useful) ways of utilizing them, although some of these methods are covered in partial detail in the second portion of the book -- which brings me to my second bone of contention.

The book is divided into two logical sections: the definitions of the commands, functions, operators, and base functionalities of the language (extending into about 25%-30% of the pages), and the "everything else" section of the material.This type of structure is fine -- if the second section is logically organized and planned, that is.Instead, the reader finds themselves immersed in descriptions of topics and snippets of source code that seem to fit the heading of the chapter, but only if the reader thinks very hard about it first -- definitely not the sign of a good guide.

The author partly makes up for this with an excellent set of appendices and index, but the final, two-page treatment of "programming style" is exactly the sort of monstrosity that makes people think that MUMPS is an old, disorganized language.

In short, buy this book if you want to learn MUMPS or if you need a decent quick reference guide.But stay away from the back half of the book!

This book is a good introduction to the MUMPS language
Although it is not the best written book in the world, it does accomplish its task of introducing the reader to the MUMPS language.In addition it is one of the few book available for MUMPS.Despite the previous review,MUMPS is still widely used today (especially in medical and insurancefields).Speaking from personal experience it can also be on of thecleanest and fastest ways to program a large database.

An excellent book on MUMPS...
How true it is that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing! The reader from Tucson is obviously mistaking the MUMPS he 'knows' from the seventies with the completely different language it is today. Sure, it's earlyincarnations didn't enforce the tidiest code, but only an ignorant personwould advise you against a new BMW because he didn't like the Ford Model T!Since Intersystems have taken MUMPS over the language has seriously maturedinto what is today - now known as CACHÉ. It can fully integrate with Java(which is NOT a database language by the way), and one can developextremely powerful web-enabled, object-oriented database applications withvery little code at all! Moreover, it is easier to maintain than many otherlanguages I know. I suggest he should, like you dear reader, take a look atCACHÉ (the 'Best New Database of 1998' according to Deloitte and Touche) and discover how you can speed up your existing SQLdatabase applications by a factor of 20 without having to change any codeat all! Ancient and dusty? Mature, reliable, innovative and still thefastest is more like it.

Good book for MUMPS, but who wants to use it anymore?
The book is a good reference of MUMPS as far as it goes, but lets face it MUMPS is a disease that should be vaccinated against.It is a programming language/database/operating system that has worse syntax than BASIC and encourages nothing more than unmaintainable code.Go out and buy yourself a good Java book instead and be part of the future instead of the dusty ancient past. ... Read more

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Revised and Improved, 2010. An introduction to the Mumps language and programming guide for the open source M2 Mumps compiler and interpreter. Mumps is a simple, easily learned, powerful database and string manipulation language which is ideal for both desktop and server applications. Mumps began life in the mid 60's as a general purpose programming language designed for medical applications.It stood apart from other languages of the time by supporting an easily manipulated hierarchical database, flexible string handling support, pattern matching,and a simple, easily learned syntax similar to Basic. The unique Mumps global array database effectively unlimited (32 terabytes) sparse, string indexed, multi-dimensional arrays. ... Read more

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Chapters: Mumps Programming Language, Fileman, Mumps Language Syntax, Meditech, Mumps Users, Miis, Profile Scripting Language. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Medical Information Technology, Inc., commonly known as MEDITECH, is a Massachusetts-based software and service company selling information systems, which are installed in health care organizations throughout the world. Founded in 1969 by Chairman and CEO A. Neil Pappalardo, MEDITECH has a market share of greater than 22% in the United States and close to 40% in Canada. In 1969, A. Neil Pappalardo began development of MIIS, one of several proprietary implementations of MUMPS, a programming language which at the time had not been standardized. MIIS users and developers later influenced efforts toward MUMPS standardization during the early 1970s; the MUMPS standard was complete by 1974 and approved by 1977. Between 1971 and 1979, Pappalardo developed various other systems, but those associated with integrated health care information remained his primary focus. In 1982, MEDITECH adopted the then-new MAGIC programming language. MAGIC would later become integral to MEDITECH's health care information systems' implementations. In 1994, the company adopted Client/Server, a second software platform to complement MAGIC. While Client/Server utilizes the same MAGIC programming language, it runs differently. MAGIC runs all code on a central server, and clients are in effect dumb terminals. Client/Server executes the code on a users PC, although all code remains centralized. Client server currently supports only Microsoft Windows-based operating systems. MEDITECH unveiled its 6.0 platform in 2006. This platform is MEDITECH's current offering and purports an improved user interface, streamlined workflow...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=715809 ... Read more

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A young girl shares her mumps with her family. ... Read more

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First in a series of reports from the IOM Immunization Safety Review Committee, presents an assessment of the evidence regarding a hypothesized causal association between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism, and the committee's conclusions and recommendations. Softcover. ... Read more

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An Hilarious look at what could happen if animals had the same childhood afflictions as we do--i.e., mumps, loss of a tooth. "If a Hippo Had Mumps do you think you would know?No, no, no".This book hasa wonderful sense rhyme and repetition for the you reader.Beautifully illustrated.James Paterson's illustrations come to life in this book. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2006. The length of the article is 708 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Despite vaccine, U.S. may see more of the mumps.(Infectious Diseases)
Author: Joyce Frieden
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 36Issue: 19Page: 20(1)

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Chapters: Canadian Clowns, Richard Pochinko, Steben Twins, Mump and Smoot, Edouard Beaupré, William Leonard Hunt, Karen Hines, Marc Favreau, Vicki Gabereau, Libby Morris. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Édouard BeaupréEdouard Beaupré (January 9, 1881 July 3, 1904) was a circus and freak show giant, strongman, and a star in Barnum and Bailey's circus.Life Beaupré was the eldest of 20 children born to Gaspard and Florestine (née Piché) Beaupré in the newly-founded parish of Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan , Canada , and was the first child to be baptized in the parish. Beaupré did not appear abnormally large at birth, and for the first three years of his life, his growth was relatively normal. However, Edouard's growth rate then increased dramatically, so much so that by age nine he was six feet tall, and by the age of 17 his height was recorded at 7'1". In 1902, Edouard's height was measured at 8 feet 2.5 inches and he weighed over 400 pounds. His death certificate describes him as being 8'3" (2,52m) tall and still growing.As a young man Beaupré quickly grew into a first-rate horseman . Edouard had a dream of becoming a cowboy when he was growing up. When Beaupré was 15, he quit school to pursue his dreams of riding the open range. Legend has it that he had to give up his cowboy dream because his legs dragged on the ground when he rode even the tallest horses, but that's unlikely, since an average-sized saddle horse is about 5 feet tall at the saddle. He then decided to use his size to his advantage to support his family. Instead of riding them, he ended up lifting them. Edouard would become known as the "Willow Bunch Giant".At the urging of others and to help support his family, he went on to tour the North American freak show circuit. Over the years he would be stared at by onlooker... ... Read more

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Simple questions and answers reveal what happens to the body during many common illnesses and injuries such as bruises, broken bones, allergies, colds, indigestion, and chicken pox. ... Read more

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A reprint of this title which was first published in 1976. Illustrated throughout in full colour by Jan Pienkowski. ... Read more

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Mog's Mumps is awesome
I am a big fan of this book...it is one of my best childhood memories, reading this book at the library over and over again and then realizing that i could check it out too and read it at home.a lovely little story for kids to read on halloween or any time if they love witches and cats.the illustrations are adorable as well. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Scilab, Spice, Eas3, Lapack, Mingw, Mdynamix, Code Aster, Mumps, Physics Analysis Workstation, Moscito, Freemat, Arpack, Lis, Cern Program Library, Cp2k, Geant, Xdrawchem, Gnuplotfortran, Mongo. Excerpt:Written in : FORTRAN 77 ARPACK , the ARnoldi PACKage , is a numerical software library written in FORTRAN 77 for solving large scale eigenvalue problems. The package is designed to compute a few eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors of large sparse or structured matrices , using the Implicitly Restarted Arnoldi Method (IRAM) or, in the case of symmetric matrices, the corresponding variant of the Lanczos algorithm . Reverse Communication Interface A powerful feature of ARPACK is its ability to use any matrix storage format. This is possible because it doesn't operate on the matrices directly, but instead when a matrix operation is required it returns control to the calling program with a flag indicating what operation is required. The calling program must then perform the operation and call the ARPACK routine again to continue. The operations are typically matrix-vector products, and solving linear systems. References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Developer(s) : CERN The CERN Program Library or CERNLIB is a collection of FORTRAN77 libraries and modules, maintained "as is" by CERN . Its content ranges from more specialized data analysis of high energy physics to general purpose numerical analysis . Lower-level parts of the CERN Program Library are most prominently used by the data analysis software PAW and the detector simulation framework GEANT (which themselves are contained in the CERN Program Library). The major fields covered by the libraries contained therein are: CERN Program Library uses the year as its version, with... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System), or alternatively M, is a programming language created in the late 1960s, originally for use in the healthcare industry. It was designed for the production of multi-user database-driven applications. It predates C and most other popular languages in current usage, and has very different syntax and terminology. It was largely adopted during the 1970s and early 1980s in healthcare and financial information systems/databases, and continues to be used by many of the same clients today. It is currently used in electronic health record systems as well as by multiple banking networks and online trading/investment services. MUMPS was developed by Neil Pappalardo and colleagues in Dr. Octo Barnett's animal lab at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston during 1966 and 1967. The original MUMPS system was, like Unix a few years later, built on a spare DEC PDP-7. Octo Barnett and Neil Pappalardo were also involved with MGH's planning for a Hospital Information System, obtained a backward compatible PDP-9, and began using MUMPS in the admissions cycle and laboratory test reporting. MUMPS was then an interpreted language and incorporated a hierarchical database file system to standardize interaction with the data. Some aspects of MUMPS can be traced from Rand Corporation's JOSS through BBN's TELCOMP and STRINGCOMP. The MUMPS team deliberately chose to include portability between machines as a design goal. Another feature, not widely supported for machines of the era, in operating systems or in hardware, was multitasking, which was also built into the language itself. The portability was soon useful, as MUMPS was shortly adapted to a DEC PDP-15, where it lived for some time. MUMPS... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19723 ... Read more

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Chapters: Mumps, Mumps Language Syntax, Mumps Users. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System), or alternatively M, is a programming language created in the late 1960s, originally for use in the healthcare industry. It was designed for the production of multi-user database-driven applications. It predates C and most other popular languages in current usage, and has very different syntax and terminology. It was largely adopted during the 1970s and early 1980s in healthcare and financial information systems/databases, and continues to be used by many of the same clients today. It is currently used in electronic health record systems as well as by multiple banking networks and online trading/investment services. MUMPS was developed by Neil Pappalardo and colleagues in Dr. Octo Barnett's animal lab at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston during 1966 and 1967. The original MUMPS system was, like Unix a few years later, built on a spare DEC PDP-7. Octo Barnett and Neil Pappalardo were also involved with MGH's planning for a Hospital Information System, obtained a backward compatible PDP-9, and began using MUMPS in the admissions cycle and laboratory test reporting. MUMPS was then an interpreted language and incorporated a hierarchical database file system to standardize interaction with the data. Some aspects of MUMPS can be traced from Rand Corporation's JOSS through BBN's TELCOMP and STRINGCOMP. The MUMPS team deliberately chose to include portability between machines as a design goal. Another feature, not widely supported for machines of the era, in operating systems or in hardware, was multitasking, which was also built into the language itself. The portability was soon useful...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19723 ... Read more