On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 20:22:10 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > ... >"99 Bottles of Beer" is more concise in C++ than in Python, and MUCH more >concise in BASIC. Does that make BASIC a better language? >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Bottles_of_Beer > The BASIC is 219 characters. I converted it slavishly to Rexx. 32 characters shorter -- 187:
do Bottle = 100 TO 1 by -1 say Bottle "bottles of beer on the wall," Bottle "bottles of beer" say "Take one down and pass it around," Bottle-1 "bottles of beer on the wall" end Bottle Does that make Rexx a worse language? (We don't need no steenkin' "||"!) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
