The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

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)