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COMIT
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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.