<s>
AMBIT	B-Language
is	O
a	O
historical	O
programming	O
language	O
that	O
was	O
introduced	O
by	O
Carlos	O
Christensen	O
of	O
Massachusetts	O
Computer	O
Associates	O
in	O
1964	O
for	O
symbolic	O
computation.	O
<	O
ref	O
name	O
=	O
"	O
ambit	B-Language
"	O
>Carlos	O
Christensen	O
:	O
Examples	O
of	O
Symbol	O
Manipulation	O
in	O
the	O
AMBIT	B-Language
Programming	O
Language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
247-261.	O
<	O
/ref	O
>Carlos	O
Christensen	O
:	O
On	O
the	O
implementation	O
of	O
AMBIT	B-Language
,	O
a	O
language	O
for	O
symbol	O
manipulation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
language	O
was	O
influenced	O
by	O
ALGOL	B-Language
60	I-Language
and	O
is	O
an	O
early	O
example	O
of	O
a	O
pattern	B-Language
matching	I-Language
language	O
for	O
manipulation	O
of	O
strings	O
(	O
a	O
more	O
popular	O
example	O
from	O
the	O
same	O
time	O
is	O
SNOBOL	B-Application
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
acronym	O
AMBIT	B-Language
stands	O
for	O
"	O
Algebraic	O
Manipulation	O
by	O
Identity	O
Translation	O
"	O
,	O
but	O
has	O
also	O
claimed	O
"	O
Acronym	O
May	O
Be	O
Ignored	O
Totally	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AMBIT	B-Language
had	O
dialects	O
for	O
manipulation	O
of	O
lists	O
(	O
AMBIT-L	O
)	O
Michael	O
S	O
.	O
Wolfberg	O
:	O
Fundamentals	O
of	O
the	O
AMBIT/L	O
list-processing	O
language	O
,	O
Proceedings	O
of	O
the	O
symposium	O
on	O
two-dimensional	O
man-machine	O
communication	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
October	O
1972	O
and	O
graphs	B-Application
(	O
AMBIT-G	O
)	O
Carlos	O
Christensen	O
:	O
An	O
Example	O
of	O
the	O
Manipulation	O
of	O
Directed	O
Graphs	B-Application
in	O
the	O
AMBIT/G	O
Programming	O
Language	O
,	O
in	O
Melvin	O
Klerer	O
et	O
al	O
:	O
Interactive	O
Systems	O
for	O
Experimental	O
Applied	O
Mathematics	O
,	O
Academic	O
Press	O
,	O
1968	O
,	O
pp	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Both	O
pioneered	O
with	O
data	B-Application
structure	I-Application
diagrams	I-Application
and	O
visual	B-Language
programming	I-Language
as	O
data	O
and	O
patterns	O
were	O
used	O
to	O
be	O
represented	O
by	O
directed-graph	O
diagrams.Brad	O
A	O
.	O
Myers	O
:	O
Taxonomies	O
of	O
visual	B-Language
programming	I-Language
and	O
program	O
visualization	O
,	O
Journal	O
of	O
Visual	O
Languages	O
&	O
Computing	O
,	O
Volume	O
1	O
,	O
Issue	O
1	O
,	O
March	O
1990	O
,	O
pp	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AMBIT/L	O
was	O
implemented	O
for	O
a	O
PDP-10	B-Device
computer	O
and	O
used	O
to	O
implement	O
the	O
interactive	O
algebraic	O
manipulation	O
system	O
IAM.Carlos	O
Christensen	O
,	O
Michael	O
Karr	O
:	O
IAM	O
,	O
a	O
system	O
for	O
interactive	O
algebraic	O
manipulation	O
.	O
</s>
