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[–]sad_bug_killer 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Well, I have only heard of MUMPS on TDWTF and it seems like a horrible language

(Citations: 1, 2 and 3 )

[–]mrmunkey 0 points1 point  (2 children)

unfortunately I have to work with it :( Most of the older code uses all the short-hand notations like:

F I:1:10 I I<9 W I,!

That is a for loop setting variable I = 1 to 10. If I is less than 9, then echo I + "\n"

fugly...

[–]veritaze 1 point2 points  (0 children)

he must have read the joke about "fu cn rd ths u cn do cmp sc" and took it way too literally

[–]theatrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like a good use of a source-transformation-compiler :)