Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation

, Volume 22, Issue 1, pp 81–111 | Cite as

Visual Lisp/CLOS programming in OpenMusic

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OpenMusic (OM) is a visual programming language developed on top of Common Lisp and CLOS, in which most of the functional and object-oriented programming concepts can be implemented and carried out graphically. Although this visual language was designed for musical applications, the focus in this paper is to describe and study OM as a complete general-purpose programming environment.

Visual programming Functional programming Object-oriented programming Lisp Computer music 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.IRCAM—CNRS UMR STMS, Music Representation Research GroupParisFrance

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