RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 125

Friday, Jan 2, 2026| Tags: Perl, Raku

TABLE OF CONTENTS


  1. HEADLINES

  2. STAR CONTRIBUTORS

  3. CONTRIBUTION STATS

  4. GUESTS

  5. LANGUAGES

  6. CENTURION CLUB

  7. DAMIAN CONWAY’s CORNER

  8. ANDREW SHITOV’s CORNER

  9. PERL SOLUTIONS

10. RAKU SOLUTIONS

11. PERL & RAKU SOLUTIONS


HEADLINES


Thank you Team PWC for your continuous support and encouragement.


STAR CONTRIBUTORS


Following members shared solutions to both tasks in Perl and Raku as well as blogged about it.

1. Colin Crain

2. Flavio Poletti

3. Jaldhar H. Vyas


Overall Contributions Stats:


1. Perl: 6303 (62%)

2. Raku: 3736 (38%)

3. Blog: 1821


CONTRIBUTION STATS


The total contributions in the week is 70. Well done Team PWC. I would also like to thank Raku contributors for catching up.

1. Perl: 39

2. Raku: 19

3. Blog: 12


GUESTS


1. Abigail (768)

Awk (72), BASIC (9), Bash (64), Bc (22), Befunge-93 (22), Brainfuck (1), C (76), C Shell (7), COBOL (7), Chef (1), Erlang (6), Forth (7), Fortran (9), Go (26), Java (25), Lua (62), M4 (6), MMIX (3), Mumps (1), Node.js (81), OCaml (6), Ook (1), PHP (6), Pascal (28), Postscript (5), Python (67), R (24), Rexx (6), Ruby (62), SQL (11), Scheme (21), Sed (5), Tcl (19).

2. Paulo Custodio (619)

Ada (21), Awk (28), BASIC (44), Bc (17), Brainfuck (5), C (89), C++ (57), D (14), Forth (42), Fortran (8), Lua (38), Pascal (6), Python (250).

3. Stuart Little (412)

Haskell (250), Lua (82), Node.js (38), Python (42).

4. Roger Bell_West (272)

Bash (1), Postscript (9), Python (99), Ruby (87), Rust (76).

5. AhmetEmre (234)

BQN (234).

6. Lubos Kolouch (181)

Bash (1), C++ (1), Go (1), Java (1), JavaScript (1), PHP (1), Python (173), Ruby (1), VBA (1).

7. Ulrich Rieke (152)

Awk (1), C (2), C++ (65), Haskell (77), Java (1), Lisp (6).

8. Laurent Rosenfeld (140)

Awk (8), Bash (1), Bc (1), Bourne Shell (1), C (8), C++ (1), D (7), Dart (2), Gembase (3), Go (6), IO (1), Java (2), Julia (8), Kotlin (3), Lua (3), Nim (3), Pascal (4), Python (24), Ruby (8), Rust (6), Scala (36), Sed (1), Tcl (1), Visual BASIC (1), Zig (1).

9. Tyler Wardhaugh (136)

Clojure (88), Lua (36), Python (12).

10. David Ferrone (116)

C (29), JavaScript (29), Python (29), Rust (29).

11. Archar Gelod (104)

Nim (104).

12. Myoungjin Jeon (85)

Elm (10), Fish (1), Go (18), Haskell (34), Lisp (22).

13. Richard Park (71)

APL (66), BQN (1), JavaScript (2), Python (2).

14. Adam Russell (61)

C++ (13), Prolog (48).

15. Nuno Vieira (44)

JavaScript (44).

16. Mohammad Meraj Zia (40)

Java (32), Kotlin (8).

17. Cheok-Yin Fung (38)

Awk (2), Bash (5), Java (9), Lisp (11), Python (3), Smalltalk (8).

18. Walt Mankowski (36)

C (6), C++ (4), Python (26).

19. Andrew Shitov (34)

Bash (1), C (1), C# (1), C++ (10), D (1), Dart (1), Fortran (1), Go (1), HTML (1), Java (1), JavaScript (1), Julia (1), Kotlin (1), Lisp (1), Lua (1), PHP (1), Pascal (1), Python (4), Ruby (1), Rust (1), Scala (1), XSLT (1).

20. Conor Hoekstra (30)

APL (14), BQN (12), C++ (1), Haskell (1), J (2).

21. PokGoPun (22)

Dart (6), Go (16).

22. Shawn Wagner (21)

Java (2), OCaml (8), Tcl (11).

23. User Person (21)

Python (21).

24. Mohammad Sajid Anwar (19)

Java (1), Swift (18).

25. Cristina Heredia (16)

Python (16).

26. Orestis Zekai (16)

Python (16).

27. Pete Houston (16)

Awk (8), Bash (1), C (2), Fortran (1), Lua (2), Python (2).

28. Eric Cheung (14)

Excel VBA (13), Python (1).

29. Lucas Ransan (14)

C3 (2), Coconut (2), Miranda (2), Myrddin (2), Nix (2), Odin (2), Zig (2).

30. Dave Jacoby (13)

HTML (1), Node.js (10), Rust (2).

31. Colin Crain (12)

Python (12).

32. Frank Oosterhuis (12)

Scala (12).

33. Wanderdoc (12)

R (12).

34. Jonas Berlin (11)

Rust (11).

35. James Smith (10)

CESIL (3), JavaScript (1), Logo (1), PHP (4), Python (1).

36. Kang-min Liu (9)

Janet (3), Kotlin (2), Python (2), Rust (2).

37. Aviral Goel (8)

Haskell (8).

38. Burkhard Nickels (8)

Python (8).

39. Lance Wicks (8)

Elm (5), Go (3).

40. Leo Manfredi (8)

Bash (2), Python (6).

41. Sangeet Kar (8)

Python (8).

42. Shawak (8)

Ruby (8).

43. Alexander Pankoff (7)

Haskell (7).

44. Henry Wong (6)

PHP (6).

45. Arne Sommer (5)

Bash (1), Node.js (1), PHP (1), Python (1), Ruby (1).

46. Steven Wilson (5)

Python (4), Rust (1).

47. Karishma Rajput (4)

C (1), C++ (1), JavaScript (1), Node.js (1).

48. Kivanc Yazan (4)

Python (4).

49. Mohammad Foda (4)

Haxe (2), Nim (2).

50. Philip Hood (4)

C (1), C++ (2), GNAT (1).

51. Yet Ebreo (4)

Python (2), Ruby (2).

52. Duncan C. White (3)

Postscript (3).

53. E. Choroba (3)

C (1), Erlang (2).

54. Gabor Szabo (3)

Crystal (3).

55. Guillermo Ramos (3)

Go (3).

56. Rage311 (3)

Rust (3).

57. Ali Moradi (2)

C (2).

58. Bartosz Jarzyna (2)

PHP (2).

59. Ben Davies (2)

Idris (2).

60. Daniel Mita (2)

Go (1), JavaScript (1).

61. Tejas (2)

C++ (2).

62. Aaryan Rastogi (1)

JavaScript (1).

63. Andinus (1)

C (1).

64. Bob Lied (1)

C (1).

65. Bruce Gray (1)

SVG (1).

66. Christian Jaeger (1)

Haskell (1).

67. Darren Bottin (1)

Prolog (1).

68. David Schwartz (1)

Python (1).

69. Jaldhar H. Vyas (1)

C++ (1).

70. Jan Krnavek (1)

Scala (1).

LANGUAGES


Python (836), Haskell (378), BQN (247), Lua (224), C (220), Ruby (170), C++ (158), Node.js (131), Rust (131), Awk (119), Nim (109), Clojure (88), JavaScript (81), APL (80), Bash (77), Go (75), Java (74), BASIC (53), Scala (50), Forth (49), Prolog (49), Bc (40), Lisp (40), Pascal (39), R (36), Tcl (31), Befunge-93 (22), D (22), Ada (21), PHP (21), Scheme (21), Fortran (19), Swift (18), Postscript (17), Elm (15), Kotlin (14), OCaml (14), Excel VBA (13), SQL (11), Dart (9), Julia (9), Erlang (8), Smalltalk (8), C Shell (7), COBOL (7), Brainfuck (6), M4 (6), Rexx (6), Sed (6), CESIL (3), Crystal (3), Gembase (3), Janet (3), MMIX (3), Zig (3), C3 (2), Coconut (2), HTML (2), Haxe (2), Idris (2), J (2), Miranda (2), Myrddin (2), Nix (2), Odin (2), Bourne Shell (1), C# (1), Chef (1), Fish (1), GNAT (1), IO (1), Logo (1), Mumps (1), Ook (1), SVG (1), VBA (1), Visual BASIC (1), XSLT (1).

CENTURION CLUB


Laurent Rosenfeld (1288), Jaldhar H. Vyas (1160), Roger Bell_West (1008), Arne Sommer (930), Colin Crain (830), Athanasius (692), Adam Russell (632), Stuart Little (620), E. Choroba (586), Dave Jacoby (562), Ulrich Rieke (552), Paulo Custodio (500), Lubos Kolouch (492), Luca Ferrari (484), Mohammad Sajid Anwar (476), Jorg Sommrey (464), Javier Luque (460), Ruben Westerberg (452), Duncan C. White (442), Flavio Poletti (442), Simon Proctor (442), Cheok-Yin Fung (380), Abigail (366), Mark Anderson (336), James Smith (310), Simon Green (308), Wanderdoc (304), Ryan Thompson (294), Joelle Maslak (274), Feng Chang (266), Niels van Dijke (240), Pete Houston (234), Andrezgz (222), Yet Ebreo (222), W. Luis Mochan (210), Markus Holzer (198), Jan Krnavek (198), Myoungjin Jeon (192), Noud Aldenhoven (188), Kevin Colyer (176), Aaron Smith (174), Steven Wilson (164), Kian-Meng Ang (162), Walt Mankowski (162), Andrew Shitov (160), Duane Powell (156), Shahed Nooshmand (140), Dave Cross (120), Kang-min Liu (118), Julio de Castro (116), Cristina Heredia (112), Gustavo Chaves (112), Joan Mimosinnet (112), Saif Ahmed (110), Alicia Bielsa (106), Burkhard Nickels (106), Nuno Vieira (104), Bob Lied (100).

DAMIAN CONWAY’s CORNER


Please checkout the masterpiece collection of blogs by Damian Conway solving the The Weekly Challenge.


ANDREW SHITOV’s CORNER


Please checkout the technical class of Andrew‘s Raku Knowledge. You can find all his contributions to the The Weekly Challenge on this nicely laid out page.


PERL SOLUTIONS


Abigail

Abigail

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [BLOG #1] [BLOG #2]


Cheok-Yin Fung

Cheok-Yin Fung

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Dave Jacoby

Dave Jacoby

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [BLOG #1]


Duncan C. White

Duncan C. White

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


E. Choroba

E. Choroba

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


James Smith

James Smith

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [BLOG #1]


Jorg Sommrey

Jorg Sommrey

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Kai Burgdorf

Kai Burgdorf

[PERL #1]


Lubos Kolouch

Lubos Kolouch

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Matthew Neleigh

Matthew Neleigh

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Paulo Custodio

Paulo Custodio

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Pete Houston

Pete Houston

[PERL #1]


Peter Campbell Smith

Peter Campbell Smith

[PERL #1]


W. Luis Mochan

W. Luis Mochan

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [BLOG #1]


Wanderdoc

Wanderdoc

[PERL #2]


RAKU SOLUTIONS


Arne Sommer

Arne Sommer

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2] [BLOG #1]


Jan Krnavek

Jan Krnavek

[RAKU #1]


Joan Mimosinnet

Joan Mimosinnet

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Simon Proctor

Simon Proctor

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


PERL & RAKU SOLUTIONS


Colin Crain

Colin Crain

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [RAKU #1] [RAKU #2] [BLOG #1]


Flavio Poletti

Flavio Poletti

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [RAKU #1] [RAKU #2] [BLOG #1] [BLOG #2]


Jaldhar H. Vyas

Jaldhar H. Vyas

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [RAKU #1] [RAKU #2] [BLOG #1]


Laurent Rosenfeld

Laurent Rosenfeld

[PERL #1] [RAKU #1] [BLOG #1]


Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson

[PERL #2] [RAKU #1]


Roger Bell_West

Roger Bell_West

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [RAKU #2] [BLOG #1]


Stuart Little

Stuart Little

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Ulrich Rieke

Ulrich Rieke

[PERL #1] [RAKU #1]


Last but not the least, I would like to request all members, please send us your photo, that you already use on some other web platform, to use in the weekly blog, if not already sent.


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