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Perform an action a fixed number of times with a counter

Display the string "10 .. 9 .. 8 .. 7 .. 6 .. 5 .. 4 .. 3 .. 2 .. 1 .. Liftoff!"
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fsharp
for i = 10 downto 1 do printf "%d .. " i done
printfn "Liftoff!"
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fsharp
// Repetition via ranging over a Sequence type
for i in {10 .. -1 .. 1} do printf "%d .. " i done ; printfn "Liftoff!"
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erlang
fromto(10, 1, -1, fun (X) -> io:format("~B .. ", [X]) end), io:format("Liftoff!~n").
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erlang
lists:foreach(fun (X) -> io:format("~B .. ", [X]) end, lists:seq(10, 1, -1)), io:format("Liftoff!~n").
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clojure
(dotimes [i 10]
(print (str (- 10 i) " .. ")))

(println "Liftoff!")
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groovy
10.downto(1) { print it + " .. " }
println "Liftoff!"

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