99 Bottles of Beer

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Language Small Basic

(Microsoft language)

Date:	01/31/09
Author:	David J Dunmore
URL:	n/a
Comments:	2
Info:	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/cc950524.aspx
Score:	(2.50 in 6 votes)

'Define Variables - this appears to bey very loosely typed?
bottles = 99
next_bottles = 0
bottle_text = " bottle"
bottles_text = " bottles"
text1 = " of beer"
text2 = " on the wall"
text3 = "Take one down, pass it around"
text4 = "No more"
text5 = "Go to the store and buy some more, 99 "
text_line = " "
full_stop = ". "
comma = ", "

'Loop - 1 iteration per count until we've done all.
For bottles = 99 To 1 Step -1
  next_bottles = bottles - 1
  If bottles = 2 Then
    
     TextWindow.WriteLine(bottles + bottle_text + text1 + text2 + comma + bottles + bottles_text +
text1 + full_stop)
     TextWindow.WriteLine(text3+ " " + next_bottles + bottle_text + text1 + text2 + full_stop)
  Else  
    If bottles = 1 Then
     ' TextWindow.WriteLine(bottles)
     TextWindow.WriteLine(bottles + bottle_text + text1 + text2 + comma + bottles + text1 +
full_stop)
     TextWindow.WriteLine(text3 + comma + text4 + bottles_text + text1 + text2 + full_stop)
     TextWindow.WriteLine(text4 + bottles_text + text1 + text2 + comma + text4 + bottles_text +
text1 + full_stop)
     TextWindow.WriteLine(text5 + bottles_text + text1 + text2 + full_stop)  
   Else 
     'TextWindow.WriteLine(bottles)
     TextWindow.WriteLine(bottles + bottles_text + text1 + text2 + comma + bottles + bottles_text +
text1 + full_stop)
     TextWindow.WriteLine(text3 + " " + next_bottles + bottles_text + text1 + text2 + full_stop)
     EndIf
     EndIf
 EndFor

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Alan Vickery said on 02/15/09 13:39:42

I cut and pasted the code into the Small Basic 0.3 editor and it would not run. Apparently it did not like the spaces between the concatenation operators. After I fixed that problem it ran perfect with the exception of "2 bottle of beer on the wall" should have used the bottles_text instead of bottle_text. But after 97 bottles of beer a grammatical flexibility should be expected. Good Job!

Alan Vickery said on 02/15/09 14:21:36

Nevermind it wasn't spacing it was the line wrap for the statement lines. Whoops.

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