Perl Backfill Challenge: Shift to low gear, a fifty dollar fine my friend!

I’m making another entry backfilling the challenges I missed while my mother was dying; I’m doing these in her honor.

Perl Weekly Challenge 297‘s tasks were “Contiguous Array” and “Semi-Ordered Permutation”.

I thought about what music I should pick, and “semi” jumped out at me. Semi makes me think trucks, and trucks make me think of Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas.

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Perl Weekly Challenge: ‘Cause I’d Already Know

Perl Weekly Challenge 378‘s tasks are “Second Largest Digit” and “Sum of Words”.

I blame thank my wife for this music selection…

Second largest digit
Is not the words in this week’s second task
It’s not that I’m counting
Characters, but if you only knew
How easy… it would be to sum. up. all. these. things!
Sum of words
Is all you have to do to make it real

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Perl Weekly Challenge: You might think I’m crazy, but I don’t even care

Perl Weekly Challenge 376‘s tasks are “Chessboard Squares” and “Doubled Words”.

I already picked Chess the musical back in PWC 281, double for 290, and word for 255 and 360, but I haven’t given any musical love to squares, which is a shame, because it’s hip to be square… (or, wait, do I mean it’s hip to be A square?).

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