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.

With PWC 350‘s tasks being “Good Substrings” and “Shuffle Pairs”, I really couldn’t avoid the musical theme being Boz Scaggs’ Lido Shuffle.

So let’s do one more for the road in the Perl Weekly Challenge.

With Perl Weekly Challenge 349‘s tasks being “Power String” and “Meeting Point”, I had a tough music choice. I could have given you Kansas from the 70s, but my high school/college years were the 80s, so I had to go with my heart and give you The Power of Love by Huey Lewis & The News.

Don’t need no credit card to ride this train.

I mean, with Perl Weekly Challenge 348‘s tasks being “String Alike” and “Convert Time”, how could I pick anything else besides Time?

Though I was amused by Mohammad Sajid Anwar initially mistyping the second task as “COVERT Time”, and I thought it would be a spy task…

Perl Weekly Challenge 347‘s tasks are formatting dates and phone numbers, so I’m offering up ELO’s Telephone Line as this week’s musical theme.

Doo-wop, doo-be-doo-doo-wop, doo-wah, doo-languages…

With Perl Weekly Challenge 346‘s tasks being “Longest Parenthesis” and “Magic Expression”, I had a bunch of ideas for music, so I went with the first one that popped into my head: Billy Joel’s “The Longest Time“.

Who knows how much further I’ll be able to torture the intro before diving into PWC 346…

With Perl Weekly Challenge 345‘s tasks being “Peak Positions” and “Last Visitor”, I was somewhat at a loss for what to what music to pick. Then I thought about how I haven’t done musical theater in a while, and it came to me: “One Last Time” from Hamilton.

So let’s teach them how to say goodbye with PWC 345…

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!