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{{short description|Computer programming language}}
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{{Infobox programming language
| name                   = COMIT
| paradigm               = 
| year                   = {{Start date and age|1957}}
| designer               = [[Victor Yngve]]
| developer              = 
| latest release version = 
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|1965}}
| implementations        = 
| influenced             = [[SNOBOL]]
}}

'''COMIT''' was the first string processing language (compare [[SNOBOL]], [[TRAC programming language|TRAC]], and [[Perl]]), developed on the [[IBM 700/7000 series]] computers by [[Victor Yngve]], University of Chicago, and collaborators at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|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]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/ctss/CTSS_ProgrammersGuide_Dec69.pdf |title=The Compatible Time-Sharing System, A Programmer's Guide |editor-last=Crisman |editor-first=P.A. |date=December 31, 1969 |publisher=The M.I.T Computation Center |access-date=March 10, 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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*{{cite journal
| last        = Yngve
| first       = Victor
| authorlink  = Victor Yngve
|date=July 1958
| title       = A programming language for mechanical translation
| journal     = Mechanical Translation
| volume      = 5
| issue       = 1
| pages       =25–41
| publisher   = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| location    = Cambridge, Massachusetts
| issn        = 0543-2073
| oclc        = 1777183
|url=http://www.mt-archive.info/MT-1958-Yngve.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190134/http://www.mt-archive.info/MT-1958-Yngve.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-03 
| accessdate  = 2009-11-02
}}

*{{cite book 
  | last =Reilly
  | first = Edwin D.
  | title = Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology
  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JTYPKxug49IC
  | publisher = Greenwood Press
  | date = June 2003
  | isbn = 1-57356-521-0
  | page = 95}}

*[[Jean E. Sammet|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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