99 Bottles of Beer

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By Oliver Xymoron (133 Bytes)

a,t="\n%s bottles of beer on the wall","\nTake one down, pass it around"
for d in range(99,0,-1):print(a%d*2)[:-12]+t+a%(d-1 or'No')

Alternative Versions

Version	Author	Date	Comments	Rate
This example demonstrates the simplicity	Gerold Penz	07/23/05	15
Advanced, extensible beer/wall framework	Jamie Turner	05/17/06	7
Creative version	Schizo	11/06/05	16
using lambda in LISP style	J Adrian Zimmer	11/14/06	2
Exception based	Michael Galpin	02/08/08	0
functional, w/o variables or procedures	Ivan Tkatchev	07/14/05	2
minimal version with singular	Emlyn Jones	06/13/05	3
Fully compliant version	Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez	01/15/06	7
Using a iterator class	Eric Moritz	01/20/06	2
New conditional expressions in 2.5	Ezequiel Pochiero	12/18/06	1

Comments

 Rune Berge said on 06/13/05 14:56:38

Nice and short
My only nitpick is that it doesn't handle the singular form of bottles in the two last verses...

 John Irby said on 07/12/05 01:02:56

Maybe add a minimilist input() statement at the bottom for slow readers.

 Wen Zhang said on 08/31/06 14:52:30

We needn't the variable t, just print it directly and save 4 chars.

 sitopren said on 02/13/10 14:06:45

Implementing Wen Zhang's suggestion, it would look like this:
a="\n%s bottles of beer on the wall"
for d in range(99,0,-1):print(a%d*2)[:-12]+"\nTake one down, pass it around"+a%(d-1 or'No')
However, I noticed an error:
"1 bottles of beer on the wall
1 bottles of beer" (no "s" for singular!)
Additionally, punctuation and the last whole stanza are missing. So, the (a bit longer but) correct version (which needs t three times):
a="\n%s bottles of beer on the wall,"
t="\nTake one down and pass it around,"
for d in range(99,1,-1):print(a%d*2)[:-13]+"."+t+a[:-1]%(d-1)+"."
z=a%"no more"
print(2*(a%1).replace("s","")[:46]+t+z[:-1]+".\nN"+(2*z)[2:61]+".\nGo to the store and buy some more,"+a[:31]%99+"."

 Brian said on 09/13/10 21:54:23

But by the time You got to that last bottle, You'd be so drunk, You were pronouncing the word with an 's' at the end. So, it's all good.

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