> It is worth pointing out that the starting point of MUS10 was an existing ALGOL parser, modified for music synthesis. We shall see several examples of this later in which the language designer simply took an existing language cmpiler and modified it to suit musical requirements. This is a very simple but effective way to start a language design.([Programming languages for computer music synthesis, performance, and composition | ACM Computing Surveys](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/4468.4485), p248)