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The Complement Cat

Objective Write a full program that outputs (to STDOUT or closest alternative) an arbitrary string of text, no more than 64 characters long. Simple enough, right? Well, here's the catch: You may not use any characters that were present in the previous answer's output. That's right, none of them.

Thus, you are trying to be the last answer for a total of three days. That is, you want no one to answer the question in the 72 hours following the posting of your question.

Some rules

  • Your answer (and output) may only contain printable ASCII characters, newlines (carriage returns included), and tabs.
  • You may not have the same character space as a previous output. That is, if the output of one of the answers was Hello, world!, you may not output !dlrow ,olleH. (Note that this means you can use a super/subset of another character space. If submission A uses Hello, you may use Hello world.)
  • You may use any language that was not specifically made for this challenge, even if it was made after the challenge. (This language, of course, must be testable.)
  • You may not use any language that was previously used.
  • Your entry may not include comments. You may, of course, provide an extra commented program.

Entry format

Your answer should look generally like the following:

# {Language}
Uses: `characters present in the output`

Does not use: `characters used in the previous output` from [previous submission, language](link-to-previous-submission]

    {program}

Outputs:

    {output}

An explanation with your answer is appreciated.

Initial entry

Python 3

Uses: !CGaceilmnoprstwz

print("Germanic Capitlization is awesome!")
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