COMIT was the first string processing language , developed on the IBM 700/7000 series computers by Victor Yngve, University of Chicago, and collaborators at MIT from 1957 to 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. The creation of COMIT led to the creation of SNOBOL, which stand out apart from other programming languages of the era (during the 50s and 60s) for having patterns as first class data type.
Bob Fabry, University of Chicago, was responsible for COMIT II on Compatible Time Sharing System.
- Yngve, Victor (July 1958). "A programming language for mechanical translation" (PDF). Mechanical Translation. 5 (1). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 25–41. ISSN 0543-2073. OCLC 1777183. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
- Reilly, Edwin D. (June 2003). Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology. Greenwood Press. p. 95. 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.
References
Crisman, P.A., ed. (December 31, 1969). "The Compatible Time-Sharing System, A Programmer's Guide" (PDF). The M.I.T Computation Center. Retrieved March 10, 2022. http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/ctss/CTSS_ProgrammersGuide_Dec69.pdf ↩