You are here: irt.org | FOLDOC | 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)
Nearby terms: Comdex « COME FROM « COMIS « COMIT » Comite Europeen des Postes et Telecommunications » COMIT II » Comma
FOLDOC, Topics, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, ?, ALL