I’m stretching the musical theme for Perl Weekly Challenge 342. Task 1 is “Balanced String”, and when I was thinking about strings, I thought of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings.
But don’t cry—we’ll have fun with “Balanced String” and “Max Score”.
The show my wife is currently performing in is Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins (my favorite Sondheim musical), so with the first task being “Broken Keyboard”, I needed to use Something Just Broke…
But everybody’s got the right to be happy, and this week, what makes me happy is Perl Weekly Challenge 341.
Each week, I’m playing word association with the tasks to pick the musical theme. Originally, this started because one of the tasks was literally a line from a musical. This week, Perl Weekly Challenge 340 was more difficult with the tasks “Duplicate Removals” and “Ascending Numbers”.
But it didn’t take long. I couldn’t think of anything with “duplicate” in it, but “ascending” made me think of “rising”, and I landed on David Roth‘s Rising in Love.
With Perl Weekly Challenge 339 being “Max Diff” and “Peak Point”, I started to think that “Point” was my hook into a musical theme, and that made me think of one of my favorite artists, David Wilcox. So please enjoy his song Turning Point while we solve this week’s tasks…
Perl Weekly Challenge 338: “Highest Row” and “Max Distance”…
Let’s have some fun!
With Perl Weekly Challenge 337 being Smaller Than Current and an Odd Matrix, I figured I’d dig into my collection and pull out a track called Odd Ones on the Kanno Yōko (菅野 よう子) Cowboy Bebop soundtrack mini-album, Vitaminless.
So with the music out of the way, let’s do some odd programming and knock off PWC337.
The tasks this week are “Equal Group” and “Final Score”, and I already used The Final Countdown back in PWC 325, so I couldn’t use that. So I went digging though my music collection, and I found this track from Steve Hackett’s Highly Strung album: Group Therapy.
So let’s sit down together for a group session with Perl Weekly Challenge 336.
This week I could have picked Aaron Copeland’s original arrangement of his work, but I really wanted to show off Keith Emerson’s masterful arrangement for ELP’s 1977 album.
So with plenty of fanfare, let’s dive into Perl Weekly Challenge 335!
No music this week, I’m just jumping into the tasks, “Range Sum” and “Nearest Valid Point”. So let’s dive into Perl Weekly Challenge 334.
This week’s challenge is about straight lines and duplicate zeros, so let’s jump to the end of the line and listen to some musicians who were decidedly not zeroes.
So let’s live the life we please with Perl Weekly Challenge 333.