COMIT

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COMIT was an early string processing programming language developed for IBM 700/7000 computers at MIT from the late 1950s to mid 1960s. It was particularly designed for linguistics and natural language processing, and was taught to humanists to aid their research in the 1960s.

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Creator(s): Victor Yngve and MIT

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Type of analysis: Natural Language Processing Analysis Content Analysis Programming
Type of license: Commercial
Background Processing: Doesn't Run in Background
Web Usable: Other
Ease of Use: Difficult
Historic Tool (developed before 2005): Influential
TaDiRAH Goals: Creation Analysis
TaDiRAH Methods: Content Analysis Programming

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Amy Dyrbye

For an overview of programming languages used in the humanities in the late 1960s, including COMIT, pelase see the following article:

Oakman, Robert L. \"New Course Established.\" Computers and the Humanities 3.4 (1969): 242. Web.

Wachal, Robert S. \"The Machine in the Garden: Computers and literary scholarship, 1970.\" Computers and the Humanities 5.1 (1970): 23-28. Web.

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