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​rachylog: 11
• C​anvas: 7
• D​OS: 13
• E​so2D: 20
• F​ish: 20
• G​aia: 6
• H​usk: 8
• I​PEL: 23
• J​apt: 6
• Keg​: 6
• L​y: 13
• M​athGolf: 9
• N​i: 15
• O​wl: 14
• P​ip: 4
• Q​uadR: 31
• R​uby: 17
• S​tax: 6
• T​hunno: 8
• U​nix Shell: 31
• V​: 4
• W​: 4
• X​Jam: 10
• Y​orick: 36
• Z​80Golf: 16

Tell me if I'm missing anybody.

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Answer 1

vimscript

What does output mean?

Assuming output to the current vim buffer is ok:

:norm aabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Otherwise, output to stdout:

:!echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Answer 2

AWK,33+3(Penalty)

END{for(;i<26;)printf"%c",97+i++}

Answer 3

T is for TI-BASIC, 27 + 8 = 35

"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Can be run from command line, as a standalone program, or called as a function.

Answer 4

S is for Scala, Score: 40

print("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")

Answer 5

B is for Bash, 25 bytes

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

(21 bytes of code plus 4 for the language name)

Answer 6

R is for REXX, 15 characters → Score: 19

say xrange(a,z)

Answer 7

U is for uBASIC, 36 bytes → Score: 42

1 PRINT "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

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Answer 8

V is for VBA, 28 + 3 = 31

Anonymous VBE immediate window function that takes no input and outputs abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz to the VBE immediate window.

The two solutions below are of equal length and produce the same output

For i=97To 122:?Chr(i);:Next

Or

?"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Answer 9

U is for uBASIC, 30 + 6 = 36

Anonymous function that takes no input and outputs abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

0?"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

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Answer 10

S is for SmileBASIC, 27 bytes + 10 = 37

FOR I=65TO 90?CHR$(I);
NEXT

Prints the alphabet in uppercase. (I'm not sure whether this is allowed, but other people are doing it so...)

Just 1 character shorter than the (even more) boring answer:

?"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Answer 11

F is for FALSE, 15 bytes +5 = 20

97[$'{-][$,1+]#

Doesn't use any letters!

Explanation:

97 {push 97 (ASCII for 'a')}
  [ {function start}
   $'{- {subtract '{' from the current letter}
       ] {function end}
        [ {function start}
         $, {print the current letter}
           1+ {add 1}
             ] {function end}
              # {while loop. Run the second function while the first doesn't return 0}

Answer 12

JavaScript, 34 + 10 = 44

alert('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')

Answer 13

PHP, 26 + 3 = 29

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

Answer 14

Racket, 46 bytes (score 52)

(for((i 26))(display(integer->char(+ i 97))))

Answer 15

I is for ICI, 37+3 bytes → 40

printf("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz");

Answer 16

I is for Io, 35+2 bytes → 37

"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"println

Answer 17

C is for Common Lisp, Score 35 + 11 => 46

(princ"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")

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Answer 18

H is for HTML -> 4+31

<HTML/>abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

ps: browser will interpret the missing end tag

Answer 19

P is for PowerShell, 15 bytes+10 = 25

-join('a'..'z')

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Uses the character range feature added in 6.0 to improve upon past answers.

Answer 20

Canvas, 1 byte, score: 7

ｚ

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Answer 21

CJam, 7 bytes, score: 11

Learnt this language just for solving this problem.

'{,'a,-

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Answer 22

Stax, 2 bytes, score: 6

Also, Stax has a built-in.

Va

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Answer 23

Gaia, 2 bytes, score: 6

₵a

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Answer 24

MathGolf, 1 byte, score: 9

▄

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Answer 25

Japt, 2 bytes, score: 6

;C

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Answer 26

05AB1E, 1 byte, score: 7

A

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Answer 27

Jsonnet (with -S), 37 characters, score: 44

std.repeat("%c",26)%std.range(97,122)

Sample run:

bash-5.0$ jsonnet -Se 'std.repeat("%c",26)%std.range(97,122)'
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Answer 28

C is for C, 34 bytes + 1 = 35

c(i){for(i=26;i;)putchar(91-i--);}

Answer 29

X is for XJam, 6 + 4 = 10

'[,65>

What is XJam, you may ask? It's a language I started creating earlier this year and gave up before doing anything really interesting. It technically does fulfill its design criteria though, which is to be a version of CJam which adapts to the informal specification in the xkcd comic X. It accomplishes this by using a custom charset where Unicode characters representing variations on the letter X fill the top 32 slots in what's otherwise standard 7-bit ASCII. Those characters are then the only ones which can be used as variables. It also happens to be perfect for this challenge, beating the previous x answer by two. (Sorry Peter Cordes, that x86 answer was great!)

Credit where it's due, the code is taken from Lynn's answer on a different question here. It doesn't use variables so it ports over perfectly.

Answer 30

Eso2D, 15 bytes + 5 = 20

2v
,>#1~5
@#,5<

Eso2D is a language starting with E that has a relatively short name and an instruction set very good for string construction that I found on the esolang wiki. This could probably be improved further, but it's more than enough for a new best E.

Explanation:

2v        Increment the accumulator by 97 and move down to the second row
,>#1~5    Loop (from wrapping): print num to char, add 50, check if > 170, decrement by 49 otherwise.
@#,5<     Once it hits 171, decrement by 49 and print one last time before stopping.