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…
Perl Weekly Challenge 347‘s tasks are formatting dates and phone numbers, so I’m offering up ELO’s Telephone Line as this week’s musical theme.
Doo-wop, doo-be-doo-doo-wop, doo-wah, doo-languages…
With Perl Weekly Challenge 346‘s tasks being “Longest Parenthesis” and “Magic Expression”, I had a bunch of ideas for music, so I went with the first one that popped into my head: Billy Joel’s “The Longest Time“.
Who knows how much further I’ll be able to torture the intro before diving into PWC 346…
With Perl Weekly Challenge 345‘s tasks being “Peak Positions” and “Last Visitor”, I was somewhat at a loss for what to what music to pick. Then I thought about how I haven’t done musical theater in a while, and it came to me: “One Last Time” from Hamilton.
So let’s teach them how to say goodbye with PWC 345…
The tasks for Perl Weekly Challenge 344 both have names that talk about being arrays, and nothing musically jumped out at me relating to arrays. So I started free-associating, and arrays made me think of rays, and rays of sunshine, and sunshine made me think of The Beatles.
So let’s have a good day and go ahead with PWC 344!
Perl Weekly Challenge 343 starts with “Zero Friend” (which made me think of Carole King), but with task two being “Champion Team”, I couldn’t pick any music besides We Are The Champions by Queen.
So now let’s hope I don’t make any bad mistakes while tackling PWC 343!
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…