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.
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 has tasks “Last Word” and “Buddy Strings”, and that got me thinking about the spate of famous people dying lately, so I decided to give the “last word” to someone known not for words but for… his flugelhorn.
So now let’s see why Perl Weekly Challenge 331 feels so good…
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.