Since Perl Weekly Challenge 360‘s tasks are “Text Justifier” and “Word Sorter”, I first thought about trying to find some song in my music collection that featured justification. “That shouldn’t be hard,” I thought, “because I’ve got so much folk…”

Then the weird part of my brain took over, and insisted on Al Yankovich’s Word Crimes.

Perl Weekly Challenge 359‘s tasks are “Digital Root” and “String Reduction”, but the entire time I was writing these solutions all I heard in my head was Chuck Mangione’s Give It All You Got. ¹

The tasks for Perl Weekly Challenge 358 are “Max Str Value” and “Encrypted String”. I didn’t want to use “max” for my music hook again, so I went looking through my collection for “value”… and found It’s What You Value by George Harrison.

Just before our love got lost you said
“I am as constant as Kaprekar“
And I said, “Constantly writing fractions
Where’s that at?
If you want me, I’ll be in the bar…”

In the blue TV screen light, let’s draw a map of Perl Weekly Challenge 357.

Perl Weekly Challenge 356‘s tasks are “Kolakoski Sequence” and “Who Wins”. Not being as fluent with the OEIS as I ought to be, my first thought was “Who?”

And, naturally, my musical brain went to The Who. So let’s take the tube back out of town to the Perl Weekly Challenge!

Perl Weekly Challenge 355‘s tasks are “Thousand Separator” and “Mountain Array”. I barely got to thinking “What music am I going to pair with these tasks?” when my brain started playing on loop…

With Perl Weekly Challenge 354‘s tasks being “Min Abs Diff” and “Shift Grid”, I was a bit stuck for a musical theme. So I free-associated, and “grid” made me think of the cover of The Rolling Stones’ album, Some Girls. So let’s listen to that while we write some challenges¹.

“Validate Coupon” and “Max Words” are the tasks for Perl Weekly Challenge 353. I can’t believe I’ve done tasks with Max before and it never occurred to me that I needed to feature a song with Max Headroom.

Ok, swing code… swing!

Even though Perl Weekly Challenge 352‘s tasks “Match String” and “Binary Prefix” ought to have been fertile ground for a musical theme related to the tasks, my brain was just too preoccupied with a certain someone’s 100th birthday celebration, I couldn’t think of any other music besides The Doodlin’ Song.

Since Perl Weekly Challenge 351‘s tasks are “Special Average” and “Arithmetic Progression”, I decided that this week’s musical theme should be Average Person by Paul McCartney.