This is about the MUMPS 1976 standard. I'm not aware of any jobs where this is required. It's purely interesting for historical reasons. The article is part of my anniversary project (https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/). I neither think that "your career will suffer" if you do Ada, Fortran, Mumps (i.e. M/Cache/IRIS or GT.M/YottaDB), RPG or Cobol projects. Specialists are well paid, particularly with mainframe and domain experience.
My comment is about MUMPS, not a specific edition of thereof. A language is inseparable from its community. The opportunity cost of working with MUMPS is enormous, particularly for someone early in their career.
I have never touched Claude Code and don't have any plans to use it. This is about the history of MUMPS. No reason to dwell on this if you're not interested in the topic (and even less reason to complain about it).
I wish someone made something similar for Forth. Too many times I encountered something explained about forth that itself needed explanation for operators
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 31.4 ms ] threadYou won’t be able to learn the industry best practices or the modern tools, because MUMPS predates them, and your career will suffer for it.
I wish someone made something similar for Forth. Too many times I encountered something explained about forth that itself needed explanation for operators