COMIT (programming language)

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COMIT was the first programming language that allowed the processing of character strings . It was developed under the leadership of Dr. Victor Yngve in the years 1957-1965 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a mainframe series IBM 700/7000 developed. Yngve designed the language for use in linguistics , more precisely for the field of computer-aided translation of natural languages. The development of COMIT gave the impetus for the development of SNOBOL by David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold and Ivan P. Polensky.

literature

  • Yngve, V .: A programming language for mechanical translation, in Mechanical Translation, Vol. 5, pp. 25-41, July 1958
  • Edwin D. Reilly: Milestone in Computer Science and Information Technology, pp. 95 ff., Greenwood Prenn 2003, ISBN 1-57356-521-0
  • Sammet, JE: String and list processing languages, in Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals . Prentice-Hall 1969, ISBN 0-13-729988-5