COMIT
Encyclopedia
COMIT was the first string processing language (compare SNOBOL
, TRAC
, and Perl
), developed on the IBM 700/7000 series
computers by Dr. Victor Yngve
and collaborators at MIT
from 1957-1965. 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
.
SNOBOL
SNOBOL is a generic name for the computer programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky, culminating in SNOBOL4...
, TRAC
TRAC programming language
TRAC is a programming language developed in the early 1960s by Calvin Mooers. It was one of three "first languages" recommended by Ted Nelson in Computer Lib....
, and Perl
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
), developed on the IBM 700/7000 series
IBM 700/7000 series
The IBM 700/7000 series was a series of large-scale computer systems made by IBM through the 1950s and early 1960s. The series included several different, incompatible processor architectures. The 700s used vacuum tube logic and were made obsolete by the introduction of the transistorized 7000s...
computers by Dr. Victor Yngve
Victor Yngve
Victor Yngve is professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Chicago. He was one of the earliest researchers in computational linguistics and natural language processing, the use of computers to analyze and process languages...
and collaborators at MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
from 1957-1965. Yngve created the language for supporting computerized research in the field of linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
, and more specifically, the area of machine translation
Machine translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.On a basic...
for natural language processing
Natural language processing
Natural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence....
. The creation of COMIT led to the creation of SNOBOL
SNOBOL
SNOBOL is a generic name for the computer programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky, culminating in SNOBOL4...
.