Summary

Interpreter for the COMIT II programming language.

COMIT, dating from 1957, was the first programming language designed specifically for string manipulation. It was directly ancestral to SNOBOL, and through SNOBOL to sed(1), perl(1) and all other languages built around regular expressions. A Retrocomputing Museum project.

Resources


COPYINGproject license
comit-0.2.tar.gzgzipped source tarball
README.htmlroadmap file
comit-paper.htmlDocumentation
comit-manual.htmlDocumentation
NEWS.htmlproject news
TODO.htmlto-do list
comit.htmlDocumentation

The project repository is at https://gitlab.com/esr/comit.

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Recent Changes

   Use moden GNU format for interpeter error messages.

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