MUMPS Overview

There is a good article on Wikipedia about MUMPS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

Implementations and Vendors

It is important for new people to know the difference between the language and the implementation of the language. Vendors sell implementations of MUMPS. In the process, they are allowed to add commands, functions, and special variables to their implementation of the language. This does not increase what is in the language, but simply in their product.

Currently there are several active Vendors of MUMPS, and MUMPS-like languages.

A partial list includes:

MUMPS implementations

Vendor	Implementation
Intersystems	Caché
Fidelity	GT.M

• Common MUMPS Errors and What they Mean

• Ed de Moel has a good description of MUMPS language elements in his MUMPS By Example page.

If we think we need more details, we should add them here.