COMIT
\kˈɒmɪt], \kˈɒmɪt], \k_ˈɒ_m_ɪ_t]\
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The first string-handling and pattern-matchinglanguage, designed in 1957-8 for applications in naturallanguage translation. The user has a workspace organisedinto shelves. Strings are made of constituents (words),accessed by subscript. A program is a set of rules, each ofwhich has a pattern, a replacement and goto another rule.["COMIT Programmer's Reference Manual", V.H. Yngve, MIT Press1961].[Sammet 1969, pp. 416-436].
By Denis Howe