Brainfcuk? Better look at this < http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-malbolge-995.html>
On Thu, 30 Jun 2022, 20:49 Paul Gilmartin, < [email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 19:44:15 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: > > >I've heard the word "awk", but never been exposed to it. I had the > impression, though, that I've heard of it in the context of Unix; am I > mistaken? > > > Somewhere in this tangle of threads someone mentioned BASIC for brevity. > I converted > the BASIC sample to Rexx and posted it. It was 10% shorter. > > Converting to awk: > BEGIN { > for ( Bottle = 100; Bottle>=1; Bottle -- ) { > print( Bottle " bottles of beer on the wall, " Bottle " bottles of beer" ) > print( "Take one down and pass it around, " Bottle-1 " bottles of beer on > the wall" ) > }; exit > } > Very similar to the BASIC and Rexx, and very slightly longer than BASIC. > > But it's a wretched misuse of awk, ignoring not only regex but especially > the > data-driven character of awk. It's comparable to solving the problem > using DFSORT. I'm surprised no one has proposed a DFSORT solution. > > or: <https://copy.sh/%62%72%61%69%6e%66%75%63%6b/prog/beer.b> > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
