You are a most remarkable programmer,
chipmunk. I just spent four and a half hours working on this one instead of my essay and still didn't get anywhere. Here's my best:
foreach(1..99){$b="\n$_ bottle@{[$_!=1&&s=>]} of beer";push@a,",\nTake
+ one down, pass it round,$d@{$d=$b.' on the wall'}\n",$d.$b};print re
+verse@a;
but the output isn't as nice as yours.
I had this great idea using quines and self-modifying code, but I was beaten by s///. The idea was to find every number in the program and decrement it by one with s/\d{2}/$1--/g but $1 is read only so I couldn't (my lesson for today). Oh well. The following code actually works.
Update: I don't know if it's just my browser but the second line isn't displaying correctly. It should be $b=99;$c=$b-1;. But it doesn't break to badly if $c gets mangled.
seek DATA, 38,0;
+
$_=join("",<DATA>);
+
$b=99;$c=$b-1;
+
$b/$b;
+
print "\n\n $b on the wall, $b. Take one down, pass it around, $c on
+the wall."
;
+
s/$b/$b-1/e;
+
s/ (\$.)/$1 bottles of beer/g;
+
eval;__DATA__
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