A 99 Bottles of Beer computer program is a common programming exercise. The idea is to program a routine writing out the full lyrics of "99 Bottles of Beer".

Example in C++:

int main() {
  int i;  
  
  for(i = 99; i > 0; --i) {
    cout i << " bottles of beer on the wall\n";
    cout i << " bottles of beer!\n";
    cout "Take one down, pass it around. " << (i-1) << " bottles of beer on the wall!\n";
  }
  return 0;
}

A one-liner in perl:

perl -e '$b="of beer";$w="on the wall";print "$_ ",b($_)," $b $w\n$_ ",b($_)," $b\ntake one down, pass it around, ",$_-1," ",b($_-1)," $b $w\n\n" foreach (reverse 1..99);sub b{$x="bottle";$_[0]==1?$x:$x."s";}'

Example in PHP:

<?PHP

  for($I = 99; $I > 0; $I--)
  {
      echo $I . " bottles of beer on the wall!\n";
      echo $I . " bottles of beer!\n";
      echo "Take one down, pass it around. " . ($I - 1) . " bottles of beer on the wall!\n\n";
  }

?>

Related topics

• Hello world program

External links

• 99 Bottles of Beer in hundreds of programming languages