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2 points by rincewind 5854 days ago | link | parent

This should be part of Anarki, so Arc can have the second shortest "99 bottles of beer" program of all langauges ...


1 point by forensic 5853 days ago | link

Which language would have the shortest?

I found a site that lists "99 bottles" programs in 1000 languages, but they don't correct for proper grammar and they don't accept inputs that aren't 99. One guy wrote a shorter 99 bottles program in Arc but it used more high-level functions than mine did.

I can't think of a language that could do the proper grammar, accepting any initial # of bottles, with fewer tokens than Arc.

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2 points by rincewind 5853 days ago | link

HQ9+

It is an esoteric language, designed to have the shortest programs for "Hello, World!" "99 bottles of beer" and quines.

http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-hq9+-1334.html

http://esolangs.org/wiki/HQ9_Plus

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