hierarchical music specification language

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hierarchical music specification language - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)