Short for Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multiprogramming System, a general-purpose programming language developed in the late 1960s. MUMPS is similar to other procedural languages developed in this period, such as BASIC, FORTRAN, and C. A MUMPS standard was approved by ANSI in 1977.
Although MUMPS has never achieved the popularity level of other languages such as C and BASIC, there is still an active community of MUMPS developers. Since about 1993, there has been a growing trend to change the name from MUMPS to M or M-Technology.
M Info Source Contains links to M related information, including magazine, books and other Web sites.
M Technology Resource Center Offers news, reference and user group information, and related Web sites for MUMPS and M technology.
MUMPS Development Committee Provides information about the MUMPS Development Committee, as well as links to literature, related standards, implementations, and products and services.
