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)