a FORTH interpreter in BASIC, Ackermann's function in troff, various dirty parsers in various dirty languages, and yet today... I am forcibly reminded that musical notation, at least as implemented in HA[1], is Not A Programming Language.
This is causing some Petulance and not a little Stamping of Feet.
I am also very determinedly NOT writing a piece of badfic which a certain person who shall not be named has put into my head. Even though I'm not terribly fond of Neville, I'd never do that to him.
[1] Insofar as I can interpret the documentation. Ah well, I'll see what the User Support Area can come up with in the way of suggestions.