Repeating characters in multiple languages

A friend of mine asked me how to repeat a string a specified number of times. There are a few times when ones wants to do this when programing. Here is the "repeating operator" in various languages. I tried to use an operator when possible - but in certain cases I used a function. In all cases I repeat a string followed by a newline.

The BSDs

for i in $(jot 1 5);
do echo -n "Hi";
done;
echo "";
Output:
HiHiHiHiHi

Most Linux distributions

for i in $(seq 1 1 5);
do echo -n "Hi";
done;
echo "";
Output:
HiHiHiHiHi

Perl

print "-" x 10;
print "\n"
Output:
----------

Python

"ab" * 10 Output: 'abababababababababab'

R

paste(rep("Hi",5), collapse='')
Output:
[1] HiHiHiHiHi

Ruby

print "-" * 10;
print "\n"
Output:
----------

Tcl

string repeat "Hi" 5
Output:
HiHiHiHiHi

ZSH

repeat 5 printf 'abc';
echo "";
Output:
abcabcabcabcabc
update 5/30/11: Thanks to Hans I found out that jot is not POSIX. Also fixed formatting.