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===Example===

<pre><nowiki>

: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<MAX,

COUNT=COUNT+1

GO TO :LOOP

TY Do you want to do this again?

ACCEPT

IF 'yes', GO TO START

IF 'no' GO TO FINISH

:FINISH

TY Goodbye!

STOP

</nowiki></pre>

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