99 Bottles of Beer

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Date:	04/20/05
Author:	Lee Stewart
URL:	n/a
Comments:	2
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Score:	(3.42 in 31 votes)

/* Rexx Version of the Bottles program */
/* by Lee Stewart (ls@sweng.stortek.com) */
   Trace Off;
   Do Forever;
      Do i = 99 To 1 By -1;
         If i > 1 Then pl = 's';
                  Else pl = '';
         Say i 'bottle'pl 'of beer on the wall,' i 'bottle'pl 'of beer';
         Say 'Take one down, pass it around';
         End;
      Say 'No more bottles of beer on the wall, no more bottles of beer';
      Say 'Go to the store and buy some more';
      End;

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Alternative Versions

Version	Author	Date	Comments	Rate
Recursive Method	Laurent KUPERBERG	11/26/09	0
now w/ "xx bottles of beer on the wall"	R. Mark Enright	10/23/08	0

Comments

Dave Salt said on 04/22/08 17:48:35

The REXX code appears slightly more complicated than it needs to be (even though what's shown is already very simple). TRACE OFF is the default and therefore doesn't need to be specified, and a closing semi-colon is assumed at the end of each line of REXX and therefore also doesn't need to be specified.

Michael Buckley said on 04/23/08 07:10:00

The code results in the following

99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer
Take one down and pass it around

98 bottles of beer on the wall, 98 bottles of beer.
Take one down and pass it around

etc. The second line should actually be "Take one down and pass it around, xx bottles of beer on the wall"

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