Splitting of string at an interval

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:09:08 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
>
>>> There's a whole competition about writing the smallest program which
>>> outputs the song "99 bottles of beer":
>>>
>>> http://codegolf.com/99-bottles-of-beer
>>
>> I see the top 10 entries are all written in Perl.  I suppose this says
>> something.
>
>
> When I write my own programming language, it will include a one-character
> built-in command to perform 99 bottles of beer, just so my language will
> always be the winner.
>
> In fact, I may make it a bare . so that not only will it be the shortest
> program, but also the smallest program in terms of number of non-white
> pixels.

Don't be too specific, Steven. Also include a one-character built-in
to emit the program's own source, and another to echo "hello, world"
to standard output. And one to increment the accumulator, just for
completeness.

Who knows, it might already exist!

http://esolangs.org/wiki/Cliff_L._Biffle

ChrisA