from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
COMIT
<language> The first string-handling and {pattern-matching}
language, designed in 1957-8 for applications in {natural
language} translation. The user has a workspace organised
into shelves. Strings are made of constituents (words),
accessed by {subscript}. A program is a set of rules, each of
which has a pattern, a replacement and goto another rule.
["COMIT Programmer's Reference Manual", V.H. Yngve, MIT Press
1961].
[Sammet 1969, pp. 416-436].
(1994-11-30)