The Curious Case of Steve Ballmer

Question

Steve Ballmer is the ex-CEO of Microsoft, and in a recent article, claimed that he "still does not know what he did wrong with mobile".

As CodeProject's newsletter pointed out, "That article's title could be ended at so many spots and still be accurate".

Given no input, output the following:

Steve Ballmer still does not know.
Steve Ballmer still does not know what he did.
Steve Ballmer still does not know what he did wrong.
Steve Ballmer still does not know what he did wrong with mobile.

This must be outputted exactly as shown, and must be the only output of your program. You may include a single trailing newline.

This is code-golf so fewest bytes in each language wins

Answer 1

Charcoal, 71 69 bytes

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Answer 2

><>, 135 bytes

".wonk ton seod llits remllaB evetS"\
l?!\o99+2*1./"h tahw  "32p10pao     \
52p\".did e"/"   "53p33p
  /\".gnorw"/
1p/\".elibom htiw;"3

This basically goes through the string, prints then replaces the fullstop and conditionals with spaces to keep moving along the code.

It may be best to visualise it using the below ><> pond link;

><> pond!

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Answer 3

Mathematica, 108 104 bytes

"Steve Ballmer still does not know what he did wrong with mobile"~StringTake~#~Print~"."&/@{33,45,51,63}

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Answer 4

Powershell, 101 bytes

0..3|%{-join("Steve Ballmer still does not know"," what he did"," wrong"," with mobile")[0..$_]+"."}

Answer 5

><>, 126 bytes

 \"elibom htiw \"10p";"15p
  "gnorw  "10p
  "did eh tahw \"11p
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  l?!vo
oo00.>a"."

Answer 6

Octave, 126 bytes

Two approaches, same length:

printf('%s.\n',(s={'Steve Ballmer still does not know',' what he did',' wrong',' with mobile'}){1},[s{1:2}],[s{1:3}],[s{1:4}])

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s={'Steve Ballmer still does not know',' what he did',' wrong',' with mobile'};printf('%s.\n',s{1},[s{1:2}],[s{1:3}],[s{1:4}])

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I could make it 21 bytes shorter, if I steal Rod's approach, but that's no fun.

for i=[33,45,51,63],disp(['Steve Ballmer still does not know what he did wrong with mobile'(1:i),46]),end

Answer 7

MATLAB / Octave - 120 bytes

a=[];s={'Steve Ballmer still does not know',' what he did',' wrong',' with mobile'};for i=s,a=[a i{1}];disp([a '.']);end

Logic is to start off with an empty string, then we have a cell array that contains the base string as the first element followed by the additions for the other elements. Note that each additional component has a space prepended. We then iterate through the cell array, and at each iteration we concatenate with a component and display the string to the user adding a period at the end.

We get:

>> a=[];s={'Steve Ballmer still does not know',' what he did',' wrong',' with mobile'};for i=s,a=[a i{1}];disp([a '.']);end
Steve Ballmer still does not know.
Steve Ballmer still does not know what he did.
Steve Ballmer still does not know what he did wrong.
Steve Ballmer still does not know what he did wrong with mobile.

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http://www.tutorialspoint.com/execute_octave_online.php?PID=0Bw_CjBb95KQMRGZoWFJ1Z3NaNTQ

Answer 8

Perl 6, 90 bytes

"$_.".say for [\,] 'Steve Ballmer still does not know','what he did','wrong','with mobile'

Answer 9

Perl, 98 bytes

for('Steve Ballmer still does not know',' what he did',' wrong',' with mobile'){$s.=$_;say "$s."}

(Run via perl -M5.10.1 ... so that "say" will be recognized)

Answer 10

Retina, 82 bytes

ABCC with mobile.
C
B wrong
B
.¶A what he did
A
Steve Ballmer still does not know

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Answer 11

Rust, 145 bytes

||{for i in b"!-3?"{println!("{}.",&"Steve Ballmer still does not know what he did wrong with mobile".to_owned().get(..*i as usize).unwrap());}};

Inspired by this solution.

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Answer 12

Julia 0.6, 99 bytes

Generate the 4 desired strings with cumprod (* is string concatenation). Tack on a period with a broadcasted string concatenation .* and print all elements in the list with a broadcasted call println..

println.(cumprod(["Steve Balmer still does not know"," what he did"," wrong"," with mobile"]).*".")

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Answer 13

Unix TMG, 145 bytes

p:parse(b)b:=(1){<Steve Ballmer still does not know>$1<.>*}=(1){1({< what he did>$1})}=(1){1({< wrong>$1})}={3({})2({})1({})1({< with mobile>})};

With some white spaces:

p:parse(b)
b:=(1){<Steve Ballmer still does not know>$1<.>*}
  =(1){1({< what he did>$1})} 
  =(1){1({< wrong>$1})}
  ={3({}) 2({}) 1({}) 1({< with mobile>})};

Answer 14

05AB1E, 43 bytes

”™¸ïßmer”“„â‚à€–ƒ€“…€À€½ƒ§'–Ñ„€Ž†©)η¦ðý'.«»

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Answer 15

Deadfish~, 1507 bytes

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Answer 16

Stax, 38 37 bytes

¥úσÆ}≡ër↑←â .M)↨\7╒°1╕J°Y¥₧iC+F.ifd┼$

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Answer 17

QBIC, 95 bytes

?@Steve Ballmer still does not know`+@.`?A+@ what he did`+B?A+C+@ wrong`+B?A+C+D+@ with mobile.

This makes every part of the output into a separate string literal, where 'A$' holds Steve Ballmer still does not know, and then repeatedly prints 'A$', followed by 'B$' (a period) or the next literal.

Chopping the original string into substrings takes just a byte more (96 bytes):

?B,34|+@.`?_sB,46|+A?_sB,52|+A?@Steve Ballmer still does not know what he did wrong with mobile.

Here, 'B$' holds the entire thing, and parts of it are subsequently shown using substring ('_s...|`). Note that 'A$' now holds the period. This allows the full sentence to be moved to the end of the program, so we can drop the closing backtick.

Answer 18

Braingolf, 139 108 bytes

"Steve Ballmer still does not know
."VRMM!&@v!&@R" what he did"!&@v!&@R" wrong"!&@v!&@R " with mobile"&@v&@R

Answer 19

REXX, 123 bytes

s='Steve Ballmer still does not know what he did wrong with mobile'
w=6 9 10 12
do i=1 to 4
say subword(s,1,word(w,i)).
end

Answer 20

MSX-BASIC, 123 bytes

1s$="Steve Ballmer still does not know what he did wrong with mobile":forx=1to4:readl:?left$(s$,l);".":next:data33,45,51,64

Answer 21

Clojure(script), 122 bytes

(print(apply str(interpose"\n"(reductions str"Steve Ballmer still does not know"[" what he did"" wrong"" with mobile"]))))

Answer 22

Tcl, 115 bytes

puts [set S "Steve Ballmer still does not know"].\n[set h "$S what he did"].\n[set w $h\ wrong].\n$w\ with\ mobile.

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Answer 23

Pyth - 98

K." w!ZÑ`±§ÑÔæý^àV;KæM×ü1A_4ÿ"J" what he did"A," wrong"" with mobile"=N\.+KN++KJNs[KJGN)s[KJGHN

The first string is a packed string

Answer 24

Fission 2, 109 107 bytes

R"Steve Ballmer still does not know"J2~~$$" what he did"J1~$" wrong"J0" with mobile."*
/0C+$$J1C+$$J2C@"."N

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I was a little annoyed at the amount of whitespace in the previous Fission answer, so I decided to see if I could make it smaller.

Answer 25

GolfScript, 82 bytes

4,{"Steve Ballmer still does not know
 what he did
 wrong
 with mobile"n/\)<"."n}/

This can be considered "19 bytes" since that's the actual code.

4,{"nnn"s/\)<"."n}/ are all the excess characters that actually make the code itself.

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Very happy with this. Splits along newlines, then adds the next element one at a time with a period until everything is printed. Lovely.

Explanation!

First of all, we have to acknowledge the string.
It's split along newlines right where we want the breaks to be.
This will be important.

For the explanation, our string is S.

4,{Sn/\)<"."n}/
4,              #Make an array [0 1 2 3]
  {          }/ #For each of those elements...
   Sn/          #Take our string and split it along newlines
      \         #Move our number-element to the front of the stack
       )        #Increase it by 1
        <       #Look at a number of parts of the split string eq. to that num
         "."    #Put a period after
            n   #Newline
                #Implicit "print the stack" at the end of creation. No quotes.

Answer 26

Python 3, 97 bytes

["Steve Ballmer still does not know what he did wrong with mobile"[:i]+"."for i in [33,45,51,63]]

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Answer 27

Vyxal oj, 124 58 50 bytes

`æ⁽ æ∴Ǐ₇ ⟑∵ ƛ∪ λ† ¬λ λ⟨ he ¬ṙ ↔Ẏ λ» ∨⁺`»→⇩d»₆τẎ\.+

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