Introduction To Programming VistA with MUMPS

Resources

MUMPS

• Start by putting Mumps on your Linux desktop using one of the GTM installation guides.
• Buy a book: M Programmer's Guide @ Amazon
• The GT.M Programmer's Guide is an easily usable browser-based language reference with a clickable index in a frame.
• All Fidelity GT.M Documentation.
• GT.M Acculturation Live CD Spend a few hours roaming through this virtual machine. It uses VistA as an example of how to use Mumps!
• M/Mumps Overview
• The Annotated M/Mumps Standards -- by Ed de Moel
• M/Mumps language reference -- older version.

VistA

• Programming VistA Issues
• Hardhats Online Fileman Manuals
• VistA Database Globals
• The Astronaut Installer suite pre-installs multiple programming assistants like Victory Programming Environment and Kevin Toppenberg's TMGIDE debugger.
• Victory Programming Environment
• Kevin Toppenberg's TMGIDE debugger.
• COSTAR and the beginnings of MUMPS in 1966

Programming Examples

• Hello World and Hello Texas with VistA
• Page Numbering Example
• Object Oriented Programming Example