Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

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)