From: John Williams
Subject: Re: Pop Beer Needed
Date: 
Message-ID: <472f1k$188@infa.central.susx.ac.uk>
Tim Robinson writes:

>I have a web page that shows how to display the lyrics to 99 Bottles of Beer
>in different programming languages (full explanation of this silly thing found
>on the web page).  However, I lack a version in Pop.

Ok, here's a version using LIB * FORMAT_PRINT (Pop-11's implementation of the
Common Lisp function FORMAT):


 true -> pop_longstrings;

 define beer(n);
     until n == 0 do
         format_print(
             ··@(~R~) bottle~:P of beer on the wall.~%~
              ····@(~R~) bottle~:P of beer!~%~
              ~:*Take ~[~;it~:;one~] down, pass it around.~%',
             [^n]);
         n - 1 -> n;
         format_print('~[·········@(~R~)~] more bottle~:P of beer on the wall.~2%', [^n])
     enduntil
 enddefine;

 beer(99);


The nice thing about this is that the numbers are printed as words, i.e.
"Ninety-nine bottles of beer".