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'''FOIL''' was the name for two different programming languages.

==CAI style language==

The first '''FOIL''' was a [[CAI]] [[programming language|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|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]].

===Example===

==An example of a FOIL program==

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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 Rosenbloom and was based on [[Forth (programming language)|Forth]].