The alphabet in programming languages

Question

Our task is to, for each letter of the (English) alphabet, write a program that prints the alphabet, in a language whose name starts with that letter.

Input: none

Output:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

uppercase and trailing newline optional

Rules:

• The scoring metric is the length of the programming language name, plus the length of the code. Hence, C will be assessed a "penalty" of 1, while GolfScript will be assessed a penalty of 10.
• One language/implementation per answer. Multiple answers are encouraged.
• If a programming language name's first letter is not an English letter, it should not be coerced into one. It will be treated as a separate letter (meaning less competition).
• No answer will be accepted until every English letter has a solution.

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Current rankings:

• A​PL: 5
• B​NQ: 10
• C​anvas: 7
• D​OS: 13
• E​SMin: 7
• F​ig: ~4.646
• G​s2: 4
• H​usk: 8
• I​mplicit: 15
• J​apt: 6
• Keg​: 6
• L​y: 13
• M​ATL: 7
• N​ibbles: 9.5
• O​hm v2: 9
• P​ip: 4
• Q​uadR: 9
• R​ProgN: 7
• S​tax: 6
• T​hunno: 8
• U​iua: 10
• V​: 4
• W​: 4
• X​Jam: 10
• Y​: 30
• Z​80Golf: 16

Tell me if I'm missing anybody.

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Answer 1

B is for Brachylog, 2 bytes → Score: 11

Ạẉ

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Answer 2

C is for Cubix, 15 bytes, Score -> 20

uo)U"z`"-?@./;/

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Cubified

    u o
    ) U
" z ` " - ? @ .
/ ; / . . . . .
    . .
    . .

Watch it run

Answer 3

K is for Keg, 3 + 3 bytes - > 6

azɧ

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It seems that the rule disallowing newer languages to be posted has been removed. Let me know if this is somehow invalid.

Answer 4

T is for Triangular, 19 bytes → 19+10 = 29

,5,D@"*i.jC>"dj>F+/

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Ungolfed:

     , 
    5 , 
   D @ " 
  * i . j 
 C > " d j 
> F + /

The process here is,

• Push 65
• Push 27
• j is a conditional NorthWest IP switch; it changes to NW if the top value of the stack is not 0. This means we have the equivalent of looping from 26 to 0 (because we decrement prior to entering the loop)
• Decrement → j → Swap top 2 stack values → Print, don't pop → Increment → Swap → Repeat

This turns out to be 1 byte shorter with capital letters than lower case due to 97 being prime.

Answer 5

M is for MAWP, 20 characters - Score: 24

[!43W8WM;1M!93WA?.%]

Explanation:

[        start of loop
!        duplicate top of stack
43W8W    push 96 to stack (4*3*8)
M        add 96 to number below
;        output top of stack as ASCII char
1M       add 1 to top of stack
!        duplicate top of stack
93W      push 27 to stack (9*3)
A        Difference of top two stack values
?.       is equal to zero, then terminate program
%        pop top of stack
]        end of loop

Answer 6

X is for x86-16 MS-DOS machine code - 16 bytes

This is hexdump from .COM file :

00000000  b4 02 b9 1a 00 b7 61 8a  d7 cd 21 fe c7 e2 f8 cd  |......a...!.....|
00000010  20                                                | |
00000011

Code I wrote :

.model small
.code
org 100h

start:

    mov ah, 02h
    mov cx, 26 
    mov bh, 97

.loop:
    mov dl, bh
    int 21h
    inc bh
    loop .loop
    int 20h

end start

I use DOSBOX to run this proram

Answer 7

P is for Python 3, 32 chars -> Score: 38

print('%c'*26%(*range(97,123),))

Using uppercase letters, this can be made shorter

print('%c'*26%(*range(65,91),))

This is based in my 2011 answer which is before Python 3.5 added starred tuple unpacking, making it smaller that that one....

EXCEPT for Python 2 also got a smaller version today which is unbeatable :)

Unless Python adds range expressions to the language, which I am proposing here

Answer 8

B is for Batch File, 31 characters → Score: 41

echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Answer 9

Ada, 92 characters -> Score: 95

with ada.text_io;use ada.text_io;procedure a is begin put("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz");end;

Answer 10

F is for F#, 36 characters -> Score: 38

printf("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")

Answer 11

E, 26 characters → Score: 27

for x in'a'..'z'{print(x)}

This is based off Joey's answer.

Answer 12

Tcl - 31 + 3 = 34

puts abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Answer 13

P is for PHP - 33 characters - Score: 36

echo implode("",range("a", "z"));

Answer 14

C++: 32+3 = 35

char c=96;while(c++<122)cout<<c;

Answer 15

U is for Unix Shell, 21 Characters → Score: 31

echo {a..z}|tr -d " "

Answer 16

V is for VBScript, 40 Characters → Score: 48

for i=97 to 122:a=a+chr(i):next:MsgBox a

Answer 17

P is, in fact, for PHP - 23 chars / 27 score

<?=join('',range(a,z));

Answer 18

C is for Clojure - (39 or 53) + 7 = 46 or 60

No, it doesn't stand for C. In Clojure, all functions form closures, so I would argue this is a complete answer, in 39 bytes.

(doseq[c(range 97 123)](print(char c)))

But if you really want it with the main function, 53 bytes.

(defn -main[](doseq[c(range 97 123)](print(char c))))

But, this isn't a Clojuric way to solve this problem. Let's try something simpler (could be golfed for 4 bytes).

(print (apply str (map char (range 97 123))))

Much better, isn't it?

Answer 19

N is for Nu, 35 Characters → Score: 37

(puts 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')

Answer 20

N is for Nim, 31 → Score: 34

for x in'a'..'z':stdout.write x

Answer 21

Mouse, 26 + 5 = 31

97a:(a.123<^a.&DUP !'1+a:)

Which outputs:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Note the lame way would be:

"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

Which gets printed implicitly immediately (as string literals do, unfortunately), but it's 28 bytes.

Answer 22

J is for Java - score: 84 characters + 4 = 88

interface a{static void main(String[]A){for(char c=65;c<91;System.out.print(c++));}}

This prints ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ instead of abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. If it's disallowed, one can simply set c to 97 (a) and loop until it reaches 123 ({) at the cost of one extra byte:

interface a{static void main(String[]A){for(char c=97;c<123;System.out.print(c++));}}

Answer 23

V for VBA: 60

Sub VforVBA()
For i=1 To 26: a=a & Chr(64+i): Next: Debug.Print a
End Sub

Answer 24

S is for seed7, 137 114 78 characters → Score: 83

const proc: main is func begin writeln("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz");end func;

Answer 25

F is for Funge → 19 chars + 5 = 24

'\`#;1+::,"@9"+\`#@_;

Something that makes this unique is that it doesn't contain a single letter of the alphabet! Hence why I didn't shorten it by replacing "@9"+ with 'y. I'll take the points hit for it.

Try it with my interpreter here: BefungeSharp.

Answer 26

Python, 36 + 6 = 42

print''.join(map(chr,range(97,123)))

Not the shortest...

Answer 27

R, 26 bytes (score 27)

paste(letters,collapse="")

Output:

[1] "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

Answer 28

Y is for Yorick, 30+6 bytes → 36

system,"echo {a..z}|tr -d ' '"

Answer 29

Z is for Zsh, 21+3 → 24 bytes

echo {a..z}|tr -d ' '

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Answer 30

B is for Bash, 11 -> 15 24

echo {a..z}

echo {a..z}|tr -d \ 
                   ^
                 space