2016 Update

Task/Generate-lower-case-ASCII-alphabet/AppleScript/generate-lower-case-ascii-alphabet-1.applescript

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+-- showCharRange :: String -> String -> [String]
+on showCharRange(strFrom, strTo)
+    -- showChar :: Int -> String
+    script showChar
+        on lambda(intID)
+            character id intID
+        end lambda
+    end script
+
+    map(showChar, range(id of strFrom, id of strTo))
+end showCharRange
+
+
+-- TEST
+on run
+
+    {showCharRange("a", "z"), ¬
+        showCharRange("🐐", "🐟")}
+
+end run
+
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- GENERIC FUNCTIONS
+
+-- map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]
+on map(f, xs)
+    tell mReturn(f)
+        set lng to length of xs
+        set lst to {}
+        repeat with i from 1 to lng
+            set end of lst to lambda(item i of xs, i, xs)
+        end repeat
+        return lst
+    end tell
+end map
+
+-- Lift 2nd class handler function into 1st class script wrapper
+-- mReturn :: Handler -> Script
+on mReturn(f)
+    if class of f is script then
+        f
+    else
+        script
+            property lambda : f
+        end script
+    end if
+end mReturn
+
+-- range :: Int -> Int -> [Int]
+on range(m, n)
+    if n < m then
+        set d to -1
+    else
+        set d to 1
+    end if
+    set lst to {}
+    repeat with i from m to n by d
+        set end of lst to i
+    end repeat
+    return lst
+end range

Task/Generate-lower-case-ASCII-alphabet/AppleScript/generate-lower-case-ascii-alphabet-2.applescript

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+{{"a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m",
+"n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z"},
+{"🐐", "🐑", "🐒", "🐓", "🐔", "🐕", "🐖", "🐗",
+"🐘", "🐙", "🐚", "🐛", "🐜", "🐝", "🐞", "🐟"}}