With this PWC evoking “oddness”, the only music I could really use was David Bowie’s Space Oddity.

So let’s sit in our tin can far above the world and watch Perl Weekly Challenge 332 unfold.

This Perl Weekly Challenge is all about algorithmic replacement, and in thinking about the second task I realized that algorithmic replacement was also possible in music.

So let’s modulate, hold a high note, and see if we can hear the title of Perl Weekly Challenge 330.

This week’s Perl Weekly Challenge has a task that wants strings to be “nice”, but if musical theater has taught me anything, it’s that nice is different than good (remember “good“?). But then my wife pointed out that if the task wants the string to be nice, then it must be nice.

So let’s get Washington on our side with Perl Weekly Challenge 329.

Perl Weekly Challenge 328 is about replacing strings, and calling one of the problems “Good” made me think of a song my wife claims is mostly forgotten by mainstream fans of Queen: Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy.

So let’s crank out some good old-fashioned code.

To work on Perl Weekly Challenge 327 I must be MAD, you say? MAD? MAD?!?!

Are we there yet?
I’m tired
I’m hungry
How far?
My nose is snotty
Need to move my body
Gotta use the potty
Better stop the car!

Looking at this week’s challenge, the “date” aspect jumped out at me, and I thought of a an old song… Got a Date With an Angel.

So let’s get on our way to heaven with Perl Weekly Challenge 326.

Perhaps because I was just in a community production of Rock of Ages, the final counting of consecutive ones brought a 1986 song by Europe to mind.

Now since I’m no Andrew Lloyd Sondheim, let’s get on with Perl Weekly Challenge 325.

2D array… Total XOR… total.. 2D… TOTALLY 2BULAR!!! This week, let’s not listen to just a song, let’s listen to an entire album.

So now let’s exorcise some of our coding demons (or dæmons?) with Perl Weekly Challenge 324.

This week, George Harrison gives us a song about both incrementing and taxes: “One, two, three, four, one, two…“

Now that we’ve been counted in song, let’s count in code for Perl Weekly Challenge 323.