Before I started on this tonight, I ran across a video of Antônio Carlos Jobim’s One Note Samba being performed by Dean Martin & Caterina Valente, and I knew I needed to make it the musical theme tonight, but I’m going to link you to John Pizzarelli’s version.
So, let’s samba on down to Perl Weekly Challenge 269!
One of the things I want to challenge myself to do is learn some more useful things, and one of the languages they’re using at work is Elixir. It’s a functional language, not a procedural language like Perl, so this is not only learning a new language but it’s learning a new way to think about code.
Since I can’t really learn by just reading about a language or watching a bunch of excellent videos one of my coworkers produced, I decided that I needed to start doing the Perl Weekly Challenge tasks in Elixir. Today, I’m tackling PWC 267 Task 1.
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