Perl Weekly Challenge: Old King Cole Was A Merry Old Soul

Perl Weekly Challenge 391‘s tasks are “Array Median” and “Arrange Box”.

I was trying really hard to think of some music to go with “array”, “median”, or “arrange”… when a voice in my head hit me with a brick and said “Music. Box. The Musical Box, you bozo.”

So have 10+ minutes of Peter Gabriel-era Genesis to enjoy while you read my solutions to this week’s challenge.

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Perl Weekly Challenge: How does it feel to decode me like you do?

Perl Weekly Challenge 390‘s tasks are “Decode String” and “Order Characters”.

Remember back in April, when PWC 369 had a task “Group Division”, and that made me think of the group Joy Division? Yeah, well “Order Characters” made me think of New Order, which is the band Joy Division turned into. So while we’re enjoying this coding challenge, enjoy all seven and a half minutes of Blue Monday.

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