- COMIT
infobox programming language
name = COMIT
paradigm =
year = 1957
designer = Victor Yngve
developer =
latest release version =
latest release date = 1965
implementations =
influenced =SNOBOL COMIT was the first string processing language (compare
SNOBOL , TRAC, andPerl ), developed on theIBM 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 oflinguistics , and more specifically, the area ofmachine translation fornatural language processing . The creation of Comit led to the creation of Snobol.References
*Yngve, V. "A programming language for mechanical translation," "Mechanical Translation," Vol. 5, pp. 25-41, July, 1958.
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cite book
last =Reilly
first = Edwin D.
title = Milestone in Computer Science and Information Technolody
publisher = Greenwood Prenn
date = 2003
pages = pp. 95
month = June
isbn = 1-57356-521-0*Sammet, J.E.. "String and list processing languages", in "Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals". ISBN 0-13-729988-5. Prentice-Hall. 1969.
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