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.

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…