omit

v 1: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The

bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off

the top piece" [syn: {exclude}, {except}, {leave out}, {leave

off}, {take out}] [ant: {include}]

2: leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?";

"The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"

[syn: {neglect}, {drop}, {miss}, {leave out}, {overlook},

{overleap}] [ant: {attend to}]

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)