COMIT

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COMIT was the first string processing language (compare SNOBOL, TRAC, and Perl), developed on the IBM 700/7000 series computers by Dr. Victor Yngve and collaborators at MIT from 1957-1965. Yngve created the language for supporting computerized research in the field of linguistics, and more specifically, the area of machine translation for natural language processing.

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• Yngve, V. "A programming language for mechanical translation," Mechanical Translation, Vol. 5, pp. 25-41, July, 1958.

• Sammet, J.E.. "String and list processing languages", in Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals. ISBN 0-13-729988-5. Prentice-Hall. 1969.