FOIL

FOIL was the name for two different programming languages. \nThe first FOIL was a CAI 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. However, it tried to make the language somewhat block-structured using whitespace which ended up making the language vaguely similar to BASIC or ABC.

An example of a FOIL program

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