# Print the alphabet without using each vowel

Inspiration: in 1939, a man named Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel called Gadsby without using the letter 'e'.

Your task is to write a set of (up to 5) programs in any language (which has a text-based syntax*) to output all 26 letters of the alphabet in order. However for each vowel aeiou, at least one of the programs must not include any occurrence of the vowel.

So there must be

• a program that does not use 'a' or 'A' anywhere in the syntax of the program.
• a program that does not use 'e' or 'E' anywhere in the syntax of the program.
• a program that does not use 'i'  or 'I' anywhere in the syntax of the program.
• a program that does not use 'o' or 'O' anywhere in the syntax of the program.
• a program that does not use 'u' or 'U' anywhere in the syntax of the program.

All of them must output abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.

The winner shall be the solution where the length of all programs is the shortest.

* since the constraint wouldn't be much of a challenge in Piet or Whitespace

Current rankings (06 Mar 2014):

• @w0lf: No, it says "up to 5 programs" and "length of all programs", which I read as "there can be only one program and its length counts in this case". – schnaader Apr 24 '12 at 11:09
• @PeterTaylor: You don't think having to avoid using vowels in your syntax is a unique challenge? As a JS programmer, it's especially interesting :) – mellamokb Apr 24 '12 at 13:51
• Are newlines acceptable in the output (i.e. one per character)? I can shorten some of my code if that is the case... – Gaffi Apr 24 '12 at 21:17
• Is uppercase output allowed? – Erik the Outgolfer Sep 16 '16 at 11:09
• I'm the OP. Uppercase not allowed. – shamp00 Sep 17 '16 at 5:21

# Bean (non-competing), 38 bytes

Hexdump:

00000000 37 cd a0 5e 80 25 81 00 cc a0 5e 84 25 81 01 80  7Í ^.%..Ì ^.%...
00000010 26 4d a0 5d 81 53 d0 80 a0 0e 20 80 24 4b 80 20  &M ].SÐ. . .$K. 00000020 5e b9 37 b1 b2 33 ^¹7±²3 00000026  The equivalent JavaScript is: for(b=97;b<123;)a+=String.fromCharCode(b++);  Alternatively, another 38 byte solution is: 00000000 bc 81 3d a0 5e 25 81 00 35 cc a0 5e 84 25 81 01 ¼.= ^%..5Ì ^.%.. 00000010 26 4d a0 5d 81 53 d0 80 a0 0e 20 80 24 4b 80 20 &M ].SÐ. . .$K.
00000020 5e b9 37 b1 b2 33                                ^¹7±²3
00000026


which is equivalent to the JavaScript:

var b=97;while(b<123)a+=String.fromCharCode(b++);


This takes advantage of the fact that a is defined as "" when there is no input, and that the last executed a+=... is implicitly printed, and contains the full string of the alphabet.

# V, 5 bytes, non-competing

¬{Ó×


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### Explanation

¬{                         " inserts characters in range to {


This outputs

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{


To remove the extraneous output, we can use a replacement

Ó×                          " remove every non-alphanumeric character in this line

" synonym of vim's :s/\W//g


### Alternatives

¬z|x                       " prints every character from  to z and
" removes the first character


# Befunge-98, 19

'1+>:#;,1+:'{-#;_@


Explanation:

'1+                   Initialize stack with ascii value for 'a'
:  ,              Duplicate top of stack, print it
1+:'{-        Increment top of stack, push zero if ascii value after 'z'
> #;       #;_@    Loop until top of stack is zero, then end


# Befunge, 16 bytes

1+:""+,:55*#@_


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Explanation

1+                  Increment the loop index which start with an implicit zero.
:""+             Make a duplicate and add 96 to convert that into a lowercase letter.
,            Write the letter to stdout.
:55*       Check if the index is greater than 25 (i.e. it's the last letter).
#@_    If so, branch left and exit, otherwise branch right and loop.


# DUP, 16 bytes

97[$123<][$,1+]#


Explanation:

97                  {push ASCII for “a” on stack}
[     ][    ]#    {while [this is not 0][do this]}
${duplicate top stack element} 123 {push 123 on stack (ASCII value of “z”+1} < {2nd element < top element? if true then push -1, if false then push 0}$         {duplicate top stack element}
,        {print character of top stack element to STDOUT}
1+      {add 1 to top stack element}


Online DUP interpreter is available here.

# Recursiva, 1 byte

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• Why would this be non-competing? – LyricLy Sep 11 '17 at 5:07
• @LyricLy Because The feature(in fact the whole language) was made later to the problem? :D I am unsure though! – officialaimm Sep 11 '17 at 6:10
• We have consensus that newer languages are no longer non-competing. – LyricLy Sep 11 '17 at 6:48

# Kotlin, 112 111 bytes

## No E O U (29 bytes)

{('A'..'Z').map{println(it)}}


## No A (39 bytes)

{(('B'-1)..'Z').filter{print(it);2>=1}}


## No I (44 bytes)

{('A'..'Z').map{z->System.out.format(""+z)}}


# VBA, 70 Bytes

Unfortunately having one brute force solution was better than having multiple looping solutions :(

Anonymous VBE immediate window function that takes no input and outputs the capitalized alphabet to the VBE immediate window

?Chr(97)"bcd"Chr(101)"fgh"Chr(105)"jklmn"Chr(111)"pqrst"Chr(117)"vwxyz


# Pyth - 1 Byte

G


Implicitly print alphabet

# Sinclair ZX80 BASIC, ~26 [tonkenized] BASIC bytes

 1 FOR O=38 TO 63
2 PRINT CHR$(O); 3 NEXT O  No A or U in this answer. Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 character codes begin at 38, which is non-ASCII compliant. # Sinclair ZX80 BASIC (only using I), 237 ~73 [tonkenized] BASIC bytes  1 PRINT CHR$(38);"BCD";CHR$(42);"FGHIJKLMN";CHR$(52);"PQRST";CHR\$(58);"VWXYZ"

• Nice. You need to add the bytes from programs with no I and no O. – shamp00 Dec 20 '17 at 23:02
• For other solutions, I'll have to use assembly, so I'm thinking about that one, I'll update shortly. – Shaun Bebbers Dec 21 '17 at 10:33

# Jelly, 7 bytes

”Ø;“b»V


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Uses Jelly string compression to get A, prepends Ø to get alphabet from alphabet constant (ØA), and evals.

# Java 8, 517 262 characters

-255 bytes thanks to @OlivierGrégoire.

No aeio (165):

\u0069nt\u0065rf\u0061c\u0065 M{st\u0061t\u0069c v\u006F\u0069d m\u0061\u0069n(Str\u0069ng[]b){f\u006Fr(ch\u0061r c=97;c<123;)Syst\u0065m.\u006Fut.pr\u0069nt(c++);}}


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No u (97):

interface A{static void main(String[]a){for(char c=97;c<123;)System.console().printf("%c",c++);}}


Note that the program for u makes use of System.console(), which will return null (and thus cause the code to throw a NullPointerException) if you call it from anything other than your OS' native terminal (cmd on Windows, bash on Linux/OSX, etc.)

• You can use System.err.printf("%c",c++); for u source code in place ofSystem.console().printf("%c",c++); – Numberknot Oct 26 '16 at 16:52
• You should mash them all in 2 programs: one without a, e, i, o and another without u. – Olivier Grégoire Sep 11 '17 at 5:53

AWK,35 (using o,i)

END{for(_=0;_++<26;)printf"%c",96+_}


neglected E from the count considering 'E'!='e'

;)

# Julia, 12

['b'-1:'z']


Though the output doesn't look all that nice.

26-element Array{Char,1}:
'a'
'b'
'c'
.
.
.
'z'


## JS, 43

Run this in the browser's console or nodeJS. Uses no vowels.

Outputs happens in the console.

To output it in the browser, add alert or document.write around it, but it's longer.

"\141bcd\145fgh\151jklmn\157pqrst\165vwxyz"


or

"\x61bcd\x65fgh\x69jklmn\x6fpqrst\x75vwxyz"


# beeswax, 28 chars

Non-competing answer. I created beeswax in December 2015, long after the challenge was posted. Just trying out how well beeswax is able to perform in comparison to other languages.

>@5~5.P@>}@Mq
dP(6~4_#dP@#"<


You can clone my GitHub repository, containing the interpreter, written in Julia, the language specs and examples.

# Braingolf, 12 bytes

62g[59gl+]&@


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As I have just learned this language, its probably golfable.

# Pyt, 1 byte

ɫ


Implicitly prints "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

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# Pushy, 4 bytes

Only requires a single program:

26XQ


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26X   \ Push range(0, 26), E(X)clusive.
Q  \ Convert to relative uppercase alphabet letters and print.


Python 48 chars without a e o u

print'\x61bcd\x65fgh\x69jklmn\x6fpqrst\x75vwxyz'

• What about no i? It is surely possible. Something like exec'pr\x69nt...'. Also, the header should say "Python 2", if you want to be exact. – Erik the Outgolfer Sep 16 '16 at 21:18

# JavaScript, 43 Chars (run in terminal)

"\141bcd\145fgh\151jklmn\157pqrst\165vwxyz"

• This just generates the alphabet, not outputs it as required. – manatwork Apr 9 '13 at 16:31