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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. In K by Jayson · · Score: 3, Interesting
    w:" on the wall";v:r,w,",\n",r,",\nTake one down, pass it around,\n",("L",1_ r:"N bottles of beer"),w,".\n\n";`0:_ssr/[,/_ssr/[v;"NL"]'+($1+s;$ s:|!98);(b,"s";`"0");(b:"1 bottle";"No more")]


    I'm sure I can cut at least ten characters off of that. I doubt it will be anywhere close to the smallest, though.