Ninety Nine Bottles Of Beer On The Wall

last modified: November 10, 2009

From DilBert: A bunch of big-brained scientific types are on a bus singing...

"Infinite number of beers on the wall, infinite number of beers. You take one down and pass it around... Infinite number of beers on the wall!" <repeats ;->

After a while, the bus driver gets sick of it and yells that they'll never to get to zero.


NinetyNineBottlesOfBeerOnTheWallInManyLanguages:

Several pages exist that list programs in incredibly and impressively large numbers of languages that emit the words to the song:


#define TakeOneDown(n) n--
for (BottlesOfBeer = 99; BottlesOfBeer > 0; TakeOneDown(BottlesOfBeer))
{
    PassItAround();
},
or perhaps
BOTTLESOFBEER 100 0 DO 99 I - PASSAROUND LOOP ;

See ForthFlames for a complete implementation. This can even be done in TuringTarpits: see SnuspLanguage.


See also: NinetyNineBugsInTheCodeOnTheScreen


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