Comit

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  COMIT
       
          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)