Hierarchical Music Specification Language
<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://www.mills.edu/LIFE/CCM/CCM.homepage.html).
As of June 1998, development is ongoing.
(http://www.softsynth.com/hmsl/).
