LPC was originally conceived as a object oriented C-like 
language for writing MUDs and being able to modify them on the fly.

// beersong.c
// an implementation in the LPC language
// Tim Hollebeek, 6/6/95 - tim@debusy.Princeton.EDU

private string bottles(int n) {
    switch (n) {
    case 0: return "no more bottles of beer";
    case 1: return "1 bottle of beer";
    default: return n + " bottles of beer";
    }
}

void beersong() {
    for (int i = 99; i; i--) {
        write(bottles(i) + " on the wall, " + bottles(i)
	      + ", take one down, pass it around, "
	      + bottles(i - 1) + " on the wall.\n");
    }
}