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'''FOIL''' was the name for two different [[programming language]]s.

'''FOIL''' was the name for two different [[programming language]]s.

==CAI style language==

The first '''FOIL''' was a [[Computer-assisted language learning|CAI]] [[programming language|language]] developed at the [[University of Michigan]] in 1967.<ref name="g665">{{cite book | last=Land | first=E. de | title=Information Technology in Health Science Education | publisher=Springer Science & Business Media | date=2013-11-11 | isbn=978-1-4684-2460-7 | url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Information_Technology_in_Health_Science/9d7cBwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=FOIL+programming+language++CAI+language+1967+michigan&pg=PA517&printsec=frontcover | access-date=2025-07-22 | page=517}}</ref> The acronym stood for File-Oriented Interpretive Language and it was very similar to other [[Computer-assisted language learning|CAI]] languages like [[COURSEWRITER]] and [[PILOT]]. However, it tried to make the language somewhat block-structured using whitespace which ended up making the language vaguely similar to [[BASIC]] or [[ABC (programming language)|ABC]].

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==References==

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==Music generation language==

The second '''FOIL''' was a music generation language for the Touché computer instrument in 1979. The Touché was a keyboard that had digital tone generation and allowed you to program software for performances. The acronym stood for Far Out Instrument Language and was succeeded by MetaFOIL and FOIL-83. The language was developed by [[David RosenbloomRosenboom]] and was based on [[Forth (programming language)|Forth]].

==External links==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100612151949/http://music.calarts.edu/~david/writings/software.html Information on David RosenbloomRosenboom's music software]

* [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=800186.810571&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=84463892&CFTOKEN=68332046 ''FOIL - a file oriented interpretive language''] article at the ACM digital library

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