The tasks for Perl Weekly Challenge 344 both have names that talk about being arrays, and nothing musically jumped out at me relating to arrays. So I started free-associating, and arrays made me think of rays, and rays of sunshine, and sunshine made me think of The Beatles.

So let’s have a good day and go ahead with PWC 344!

Perl Weekly Challenge 343 starts with “Zero Friend” (which made me think of Carole King), but with task two being “Champion Team”, I couldn’t pick any music besides We Are The Champions by Queen.

So now let’s hope I don’t make any bad mistakes while tackling PWC 343!

I’m stretching the musical theme for Perl Weekly Challenge 342. Task 1 is “Balanced String”, and when I was thinking about strings, I thought of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings.

But don’t cry—we’ll have fun with “Balanced String” and “Max Score”.

With Perl Weekly Challenge 337 being Smaller Than Current and an Odd Matrix, I figured I’d dig into my collection and pull out a track called Odd Ones on the Kanno Yōko (菅野 よう子) Cowboy Bebop soundtrack mini-album, Vitaminless.

So with the music out of the way, let’s do some odd programming and knock off PWC337.

The tasks this week are “Equal Group” and “Final Score”, and I already used The Final Countdown back in PWC 325, so I couldn’t use that. So I went digging though my music collection, and I found this track from Steve Hackett’s Highly Strung album: Group Therapy.

So let’s sit down together for a group session with Perl Weekly Challenge 336.

This week I could have picked Aaron Copeland’s original arrangement of his work, but I really wanted to show off Keith Emerson’s masterful arrangement for ELP’s 1977 album.

So with plenty of fanfare, let’s dive into Perl Weekly Challenge 335!