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...

File Oriented Interpretive Language Wikipedia page
File Oriented Interpretive Language first developed 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