Re: Splitting of string at an interval

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On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:09:08 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
>
>>> There's a whole competition about writing the smallest program which
>>> outputs the song "99 bottles of beer":
>>>
>>> http://codegolf.com/99-bottles-of-beer
>>
>> I see the top 10 entries are all written in Perl.  I suppose this says
>> something.
>
>
> When I write my own programming language, it will include a one-character
> built-in command to perform 99 bottles of beer, just so my language will
> always be the winner.
>
> In fact, I may make it a bare . so that not only will it be the shortest
> program, but also the smallest program in terms of number of non-white
> pixels.

Don't be too specific, Steven. Also include a one-character built-in
to emit the program's own source, and another to echo "hello, world"
to standard output. And one to increment the accumulator, just for
completeness.

Who knows, it might already exist!

http://esolangs.org/wiki/Cliff_L._Biffle

ChrisA

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Splitting of string at an interval subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2013-04-07 13:25 -0700
  Re: Splitting of string at an interval Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-04-07 16:46 -0400
  Re: Splitting of string at an interval Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-07 21:48 +0000
    Re: Splitting of string at an interval Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-08 13:01 +1000
      Re: Splitting of string at an interval Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-08 09:21 -0400
        Re: Splitting of string at an interval Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2013-04-08 16:10 +0100
        Re: Splitting of string at an interval Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-08 11:37 -0400
        Re: Splitting of string at an interval Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-09 02:20 +1000
        Re: Splitting of string at an interval Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2013-04-08 17:30 +0100
          Re: Splitting of string at an interval Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-08 21:09 -0400
            Re: Splitting of string at an interval Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-04-08 20:42 -0500
            Re: Splitting of string at an interval Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-09 02:38 +0000
              Re: Splitting of string at an interval Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-04-08 21:57 -0500
              Re: Splitting of string at an interval Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-09 14:22 +1000
              Re: Splitting of string at an interval Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-04-09 02:28 -0400
        Re: Splitting of string at an interval Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-04-08 19:15 -0400

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