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  Perl Weekly Challenge 390's tasks are "Decode String" and "Order Characters". Remember back in April, when PWC 369 had a task "Group Division", and that made me think of the group Joy Division? Yeah, well "Order Characters" made me think of New Order, which is the band Joy Division turned into. So while we're enjoying this coding challenge, enjoy all seven and a half minutes of Blue Monday. https://packy.da...

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: Old King Cole Was A Merry Old Soul Perl Weekly Challenge 391's tasks are "Array Median" and "Arrange Box". I was trying really hard to think of some music to go with "array", "median", or "arrange"... when a voice in my head hit me with a brick and said "Music. Box. The Musical Box, you bozo." So have 10+ minutes of Peter Gabriel-era Genesis to enjoy while...

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog! Perl Weekly Challenge 392's tasks are "Convert Palindrome" and "Words Length Product". If we want music with palindromes, you can't do much better than "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Bob". https://packy.dardan.com/b/zw

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: The Water Fell on the Floor! Perl Weekly Challenge 393's tasks are "Pythagoras Multiplied" and "Prime Steps". As much as I hate the band, when I saw "steps", I thought of Gimmie Three Steps by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Then I remembered three is a prime number. sigh. Sometimes the songs pick themselves. https://packy.dardan.com/b/10A

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: Alternate Tune, Alternate View Perl Weekly Challenge 394's tasks are "Alternate Case" and "Alternating Vowels Consonants". The word isn't a major part of the song, but "alternate" does get repeated and repeated at the end of side two of Tales from Topographic Oceans: "The Remembering (High the Memory)". So, sure, have 20+ minutes of Yes from 1973 while we work on this challenge... ht...

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: There was magic abroad in the air… Perl Weekly Challenge 395's tasks are "Complex Number" and "Word Squares". Complex Number, the night we met, There was magic abroad in the air, There were angels dining at the Ritz And a nightingale sang in a Word Square. —A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square https://packy.dardan.com/b/111

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: What do I get out of this? Perl Weekly Challenge 396's tasks are "Finishing Order" and "Trionic Array". There isn't much to go on for music here. There are a couple songs that are about finishing, but the thing that keeps popping into my head is the band New Order. I used "Blue Monday" back in PWC390, so let's have "Sub-culture" this time. https://packy.dardan.com/b/11Z

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: Latch on to the affirmative Perl Weekly Challenge 397's tasks are "Absent Smallest Positive" and "Binary Reflection". I was talking to my wife about what music to pick this week, and she immediately started singing... You've to to ab-sent the smallest positive Eliminate the negative Latch on to the affirmative Don't mess with Binary Reflection https://packy.dardan.com/b/123

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: You might think I’m crazy, but I don’t even care Perl Weekly Challenge 376's tasks are "Chessboard Squares" and "Doubled Words". I already picked Chess the musical back in PWC 281, double for 290, and word for 255 and 360, but I haven't given any musical love to squares, which is a shame, because it's hip to be square... (or, wait, do I mean… it's hip to be A square?). https://packy.dardan.com/b/r4

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: They run and hide their heads / They might as well be dead… Perl Weekly Challenge 377's tasks are "Reverse Existence" and "Prefix Suffix". Hmmm. Reverse. What does "reverse" make me think of musically? The existence of this song. https://packy.dardan.com/b/rU

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: Strings Will Tear Us Apart Perl Weekly Challenge 360's tasks are "Valid Tag" and "Group Division". Really, when I saw the word "Division", it made me think of the 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees which were announced last night, which included Joy Division and New Order being inducted together. So let's have some Joy Division to code to: Love Will Tear Us Apart. https://packy.dardan.com...

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: The scramble can not stop you / from becoming popu-ler… lar Perl Weekly Challenge 370's tasks are "Popular Word" and "Scramble String". I'm sure I could have found some music to do with scrambling, but considering I started pairing these posts with music back when the task was "Seize The Day!" and my mind immediately went to Newsies, I decided I needed to stay in my musical theatre lane and go with the...

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: My subset is-a missing a letter… Perl Weekly Challenge 371's tasks are "Missing Letter" and "Subset Equilibrium". Immediately, I heard The Box Tops in my head. https://packy.dardan.com/b/of

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: Empty Substrings and Empty Spaces Perl Weekly Challenge 372's tasks are "Rearrange Spaces" and "Largest Substring". The music connection is very train of thought and tenuous. My wife linked me a short of The Lakes Brass Quintet playing a polka arrangement of Empty Chairs at Empty Tables from Les Misérables. Yet in my head, I was repeating the incorrect lyric "empty chairs and empty spaces“. So now, when I think spaces,...

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: Because your list, your list I can’t resist Perl Weekly Challenge 373's tasks are "Equal List" and "List Division". But if you insist on knowing my BLISS I'll tell you this If you want to know what the Reason is I only smile when I lie, then I'll tell you why... Because your kiss, your kiss is an equal list Because your kiss, your kiss divides my list Because your kiss is on my list of the best things in life...

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: Hey, won’t you play… Perl Weekly Challenge 374's tasks are "Count Vowel" and "Largest Some-digits Number". I can't go back to Count von Count every time we have a counting problem, so I started thinking about "some". It didn't take long... my brain started asking "Hey... won't you play... another some-digits largest vowel count song? And make me feel at home..." https...

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: I’ve got my back against the Turing machine… In this post, I'm starting to go back and filling in the challenges I missed in 2024-2025 when my mother was hospitalized and dying. Perl Weekly Challenge 295's tasks were "Word Break" and "Jump Game". As I discovered when I actually made myself a spreadsheet of my music choices, I used Joni Mitchell's Circle Game three separate times, so I decided to steer clear of t...

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  Perl Weekly Challenge: You’ve got to get up every morning… Perl Weekly Challenge 375's tasks are "Single Common Word" and "Find K-Beauty". 🤔 Ok, I'm free-associating here, but the "K" and "Beauty" made me think of Carol King and Beautiful. https://packy.dardan.com/b/qf