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Hierarchical Music Specification Language
     
         (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/)}.
     
        (1998-09-07)