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$BottlesOfBeerOnTheWall = 99;

Posted by timothy on from the creatively-uncreative dept.

Noodleroni writes "The First Maybe-Annual 99-Bottles-of-Beer-on-the-Wall-Proggie Contest is now under way! We are looking for your most compact, obfuscated, or other wise cool code to print out the entire lyrics of the aforementioned, very long, song. Maybe we'll even get some submissions written in Malbolge?"

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  1. What's the point... by Webz · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...so long as this exists? It's pretty well stocked with languages. Why did someone even come up with this contest?

  2. Malbolge is truly evil by Scarblac · · Score: 4, Informative

    A solution in Malbolge would be really really amazing. No-one has shown that it is possible to do loops in Malbolge yet; and a program with that much output would be really hard to make.

    Someone did finally come up with a "Hello World" in Malbolge! Well, almost. He managed to make a "HEllO WORld" program by writing a genetic algorithm that took a few hours to find the program.

    This is the source code:

    (=<`$9]7<5YXz7wT.3,+O/o'K%$H"'~D|#z@b=`{^Lx8%$Xmrk pohm-kNi;gsedcba`_^]\[ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA@? >=<;:9876543s+O<oLm

    See http://www.acooke.org/andrew/writing/malbolge.html .

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    1. Re:Malbolge is truly evil by fredrikj · · Score: 3, Informative

      What's this then?

  3. Been there done that? by Smidge204 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Gee, hope none of the contestants find this place, even though it's the first hit on Google...

    =Smidge=