COMIT
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COMIT
[′kō‚mit] (computer science)
A user-oriented, general-purpose, symbol-manipulation programming language for computers.
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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].
["COMIT Programmer's Reference Manual", V.H. Yngve, MIT Press 1961].
[Sammet 1969, pp. 416-436].
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