FOIL programming language

FOIL was the name for two different programming languages.

The first FOIL was a CAI programming language developed at the University of Michigan in 1967. The acronym stood for File-Oriented Interpretive Language and it was very similar to other CAI languages like COURSEWRITER and PILOT programming language. However, it tried to make the language somewhat block-structured using whitespace which ended up making the language vaguely similar to BASIC programming language or ABC programming language.

=An example of a FOIL program=

:START COUNT=0 TY Enter the number of times you want to repeat the statement: ACCEPT MAX=NUMBER.(1) :LOOP TY This loop has run #COUNT times it will terminate when it runs #MAX times IF COUNT