Hierarchical Music Specification Language
HMSL
<language, music> (HMSL) A programming language for
experimental music composition and performance. It is a set
of {object-oriented} extensions to {Forth}. (Its near-total
unintelligibility to people unfamiliar with {Forth} has led
some to expand "HMSL" as "Her Majesty's Secret Language".)
Phil Burk (who also later developed {pForth}), Larry Polansky,
and David Rosenboom started developing HMSL in 1980 while
working at the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music
(http://mills.edu/LIFE/CCM/CCM.homepage.html). As of
June 1998, development is ongoing.
(http://softsynth.com/hmsl/).
(1998-09-07)