File Oriented Interpretive Language

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File Oriented Interpretive Language, aka File Oriented Interpretive Language, is a programming language created in 1967.

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FOIL was the name for two different programming languages.. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
Early development of File Oriented Interpretive Language happened in University of Michigan
File Oriented Interpretive Language on HOPL
See also: (4 related languages) PILOT, BASIC, ABC, Forth

Example from Wikipedia:

: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