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.
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Perl Weekly Challenge: I could drink a case of you…
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: Who’s Kolakoski?
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: Oh to live on Array Mountain…
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…
Oh to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons
You can’t be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you’re thinking that you’re leaving there too soon
You’re leaving there too soon
So enjoy Neil Young’s Sugar Mountain while we think about the Perl Weekly Challenge.
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