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Write a program that counts up forever, starting from one.

Rules:

  • Your program must log to STDOUT or an acceptable alternative, if STDOUT is not available.
  • Your program must be a full, runnable program, and not a function or snippet.
  • Your program must output each number with a separating character in between (a newline, space, tab or comma), but this must be consistent for all numbers.
  • You may print the numbers in decimal, in unary or in base 256 where each digit is represented by a byte value.
  • Your program must count at least as far as 2128 (inclusive) without problems and without running out of memory on a reasonable desktop PC. In particular, this means if you're using unary, you cannot store a unary representation of the current number in memory.
  • Unlike our usual rules, feel free to use a language (or language version) even if it's newer than this challenge. Languages specifically written to submit a 0-byte answer to this challenge are fair game but not particularly interesting.

    Note that there must be an interpreter so the submission can be tested. It is allowed (and even encouraged) to write this interpreter yourself for a previously unimplemented language.

  • This is not about finding the language with the shortest solution for this (there are some where the empty program does the trick) - this is about finding the shortest solution in every language. Therefore, no answer will be marked as accepted.

Catalogue

The Stack Snippet at the bottom of this post generates the catalogue from the answers a) as a list of shortest solution per language and b) as an overall leaderboard.

To make sure that your answer shows up, please start your answer with a headline, using the following Markdown template:

## Language Name, N bytes

where N is the size of your submission. If you improve your score, you can keep old scores in the headline, by striking them through. For instance:

## Ruby, <s>104</s> <s>101</s> 96 bytes

If there you want to include multiple numbers in your header (e.g. because your score is the sum of two files or you want to list interpreter flag penalties separately), make sure that the actual score is the last number in the header:

## Perl, 43 + 2 (-p flag) = 45 bytes

You can also make the language name a link which will then show up in the snippet:

## [><>](http://esolangs.org/wiki/Fish), 121 bytes

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    \$\begingroup\$ I'm not sure how to combine must output each number with a separating character in between with may print the numbers [...] in base 256. \$\endgroup\$ – Dennis Nov 14 '15 at 14:25
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    \$\begingroup\$ For future challenges, may I recommend the sandbox such that all these details could be sorted out before people start posting answers? :) \$\endgroup\$ – Martin Ender Nov 14 '15 at 14:32
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    \$\begingroup\$ @IlmariKaronen I interpret that as being a memory limit, not a time limit. possibly a time limit on per-increment. just set the counter to 2**128-10 and see how long it takes to take those last ten steps. \$\endgroup\$ – Sparr Nov 15 '15 at 7:41
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    \$\begingroup\$ Can we have leading zeroes in the output? \$\endgroup\$ – Paŭlo Ebermann Nov 15 '15 at 11:43
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    \$\begingroup\$ Ugh!!! I have an answer for TI-89 (56b), but I can't post b/c I'm new to the site and don't have Rep 10+! \$\endgroup\$ – gregsdennis Nov 15 '15 at 20:45

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Labyrinth, 5 bytes

):
\!

♫ The IP in the code goes round and round ♫

Relevant instructions:

)       Increment top of stack (stack has infinite zeroes at bottom)
:       Duplicate top of stack
!       Output top of stack
\       Output newline
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    \$\begingroup\$ The program is sad that its not stopping.. \$\endgroup\$ – Optimizer Nov 14 '15 at 17:10
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    \$\begingroup\$ @Optimizer def sad( indeed ): \$\endgroup\$ – yyny Nov 16 '15 at 18:11
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    \$\begingroup\$ Why is this not 4 bytes? \$\endgroup\$ – Aurel Bílý Dec 30 '15 at 11:17
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    \$\begingroup\$ @Aurel300 The fifth byte is the newline between : and \ \$\endgroup\$ – Sp3000 Dec 30 '15 at 12:10
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Sp3000 Ah, yes. Silly me. :) \$\endgroup\$ – Aurel Bílý Dec 30 '15 at 15:04
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><>, 8 bytes

01+:nao!

Steps:

  • Push 0 on the stack
  • Add 1 to the top stack element
  • Duplicate top stack element
  • Output the top of the stack as number
  • Output a newline
  • Go to step 2 by wrapping around and jumping the next instruction (step 11)

(A less memory efficient (hence invalid) program is llnao.)

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    \$\begingroup\$ +1 for the impatient upvote-demanding implicit in a line of code that basically reads “plus one, now!”. \$\endgroup\$ – Janus Bahs Jacquet Nov 14 '15 at 14:39
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Haskell, 21 bytes

main=mapM_ print[1..]

Arbitrary-precision integers and infinite lists make this easy :-)

Luckily mapM_ is in the Prelude. If Data.Traversable was as well, we even could shrink it to 19 bytes:

main=for_[1..]print
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  • \$\begingroup\$ Isn't there a symbol that generalize