IT:99 Bottles of Beer (BBC BASIC)

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The first version of a BBC BASIC program posted on 99-bottles-of-beer.net was rudimentary in that it printed output in the format: 'n bottle(s) of beer on the wall'. I wrote a quick program that improved the quality of the output, the method of the output, and (for fun) stored all output text in string variables declared at the start of the program: 

  10 REM BBC BASIC version
  20 REM by Stelio Passaris
  30 REM http://www.stelio.net
  40 REM Spacing around commands is not necessary.
  50 :
  60 a$=" bottle"
  70 s$="s"
  80 b$=" of beer"
  90 c$=" on the wall"
 100 t$="Take one down and pass it around:"
 110 :
 120 VDU14:REM enables paging mode; press shift to page down.
 130 REM Substitute above line with "VDU2" to send text to printer.
 140 FOR i%=99 TO 1 STEP -1
 150 IF i%=1 THEN s$=""
 160 IF i%<99 THEN PRINT;i%;a$;s$;b$;c$;"."'
 170 PRINT;i%;a$;s$;b$;c$;","'i%;a$;s$;b$;"."'t$
 180 NEXT i%
 190 PRINT"No more";a$;"s";b$;c$;"."
 200 VDU15:REM disables paging mode
 210 REM Substitute above line with "VDU3" to send text to printer.
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