RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 149

Friday, Dec 19, 2025| 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. Arne Sommer

2. Bruce Gray

3. Colin Crain

4. Flavio Poletti

5. Jaldhar H. Vyas

6. Laurent Rosenfeld

7. Roger Bell_West


Overall Contributions Stats:


1. Perl: 7520 (63%)

2. Raku: 4327 (37%)

3. Blog: 2254


CONTRIBUTION STATS


The total contributions in the week is 95. Well done Team PWC. I would also like to thank Raku contributors for catching up.

1. Perl: 49

2. Raku: 26

3. Blog: 20


GUESTS


1. Abigail (1321)

Awk (110), BASIC (17), Bash (98), Bc (50), Befunge-93 (29), Brainfuck (1), C (112), C Shell (14), COBOL (13), Chef (1), Erlang (14), Forth (13), Fortran (15), Go (57), Java (54), Lua (98), M4 (13), MMIX (9), Mumps (1), Node.js (117), OCaml (12), Ook (1), PHP (12), Pascal (57), Postscript (11), Python (102), R (52), Rexx (12), Ruby (96), SQL (17), Scheme (51), Sed (11), Tcl (51).

2. Paulo Custodio (670)

Ada (21), Awk (28), BASIC (44), Bc (17), Brainfuck (5), C (92), C++ (57), D (14), Forth (42), Fortran (8), Lua (38), Pascal (6), Python (298).

3. Roger Bell_West (478)

Bash (1), JavaScript (8), Kotlin (13), Lua (12), Postscript (45), Python (145), Ruby (133), Rust (121).

4. Stuart Little (436)

Haskell (256), Lua (88), Node.js (44), Python (48).

5. AhmetEmre (234)

BQN (234).

6. Lubos Kolouch (222)

Bash (1), C++ (1), Go (1), Java (9), JavaScript (1), PHP (1), Python (206), Ruby (1), VBA (1).

7. Ulrich Rieke (215)

Awk (1), C (2), C++ (92), Haskell (110), Java (3), Lisp (7).

8. Laurent Rosenfeld (185)

Awk (11), Bash (2), Bc (2), Bourne Shell (1), C (11), C++ (1), D (8), Dart (3), Gembase (3), Go (7), IO (1), Java (2), Julia (15), Kotlin (5), Lua (7), Nim (4), Pascal (5), Python (28), Ring (6), Ruby (12), Rust (9), Scala (38), Sed (1), Tcl (1), Visual BASIC (1), Zig (1).

9. Tyler Wardhaugh (174)

Clojure (124), Lua (36), Python (14).

10. David Ferrone (116)

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

11. Archar Gelod (104)

Nim (104).

12. Adam Russell (93)

C++ (24), Nuweb (3), Prolog (66).

13. Myoungjin Jeon (85)

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

14. Richard Park (73)

APL (68), BQN (1), JavaScript (2), Python (2).

15. Eric Cheung (62)

Excel VBA (54), Python (8).

16. Conor Hoekstra (60)

APL (33), BQN (17), C++ (1), Haskell (4), J (5).

17. Cheok-Yin Fung (57)

Awk (3), Bash (6), Befunge-93 (1), C++ (1), Java (13), JavaScript (1), Julia (7), Lisp (11), Node.js (2), Python (3), Smalltalk (9).

18. PokGoPun (56)

Dart (12), Go (44).

19. Mohammad Meraj Zia (50)

Java (42), Kotlin (8).

20. Mohammad Sajid Anwar (45)

Java (9), Python (11), Swift (25).

21. Nuno Vieira (44)

JavaScript (44).

22. Walt Mankowski (36)

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

23. 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).

24. Luca Ferrari (25)

PostgreSQL (25).

25. Ian Goodnight (21)

JavaScript (12), Python (3), Ruby (6).

26. Shawn Wagner (21)

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

27. User Person (21)

Python (21).

28. Ali Moradi (20)

C (4), C++ (2), D (2), Go (2), Lua (2), Modula 3 (2), Oberon (2), Pascal (2), Ruby (2).

29. Cristina Heredia (20)

Python (20).

30. Dave Jacoby (18)

HTML (1), Node.js (14), Python (1), Rust (2).

31. Pete Houston (18)

Awk (10), Bash (1), C (2), Fortran (1), Lua (2), Python (2).

32. Simon Green (17)

Python (17).

33. Orestis Zekai (16)

Python (16).

34. Lucas Ransan (14)

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

35. Colin Crain (12)

Python (12).

36. Frank Oosterhuis (12)

Scala (12).

37. Wanderdoc (12)

R (12).

38. James Smith (11)

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

39. Jonas Berlin (11)

Rust (11).

40. E. Alvarez (9)

Go (8), Python (1).

41. Kang-min Liu (9)

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

42. Aviral Goel (8)

Haskell (8).

43. Burkhard Nickels (8)

Python (8).

44. Lance Wicks (8)

Elm (5), Go (3).

45. Leo Manfredi (8)

Bash (2), Python (6).

46. Sangeet Kar (8)

Python (8).

47. Shawak (8)

Ruby (8).

48. Steven Wilson (8)

Haskell (1), JavaScript (1), Python (5), Rust (1).

49. Alexander Pankoff (7)

Haskell (7).

50. Henry Wong (6)

PHP (6).

51. Arne Sommer (5)

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

52. Ben Davies (4)

Idris (2), Scala (2).

53. Bruce Gray (4)

C (3), SVG (1).

54. Karishma Rajput (4)

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

55. Kivanc Yazan (4)

Python (4).

56. Mohammad Foda (4)

Haxe (2), Nim (2).

57. Philip Hood (4)

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

58. Yet Ebreo (4)

Python (2), Ruby (2).

59. Andinus (3)

C (3).

60. Duncan C. White (3)

Postscript (3).

61. E. Choroba (3)

C (1), Erlang (2).

62. Gabor Szabo (3)

Crystal (3).

63. Guillermo Ramos (3)

Go (3).

64. Mohammad Khalid Anwar (3)

C++ (1), PHP (1), Python (1).

65. Rage311 (3)

Rust (3).

66. Bartosz Jarzyna (2)

PHP (2).

67. Daniel Mita (2)

Go (1), JavaScript (1).

68. Mark Senn (2)

Wolfram (2).

69. Robert DiCicco (2)

Ruby (2).

70. Tejas (2)

C++ (2).

71. Aaryan Rastogi (1)

JavaScript (1).

72. Bob Lied (1)

C (1).

73. Christian Jaeger (1)

Haskell (1).

74. Darren Bottin (1)

Prolog (1).

75. David Schwartz (1)

Python (1).

76. Jaldhar H. Vyas (1)

C++ (1).

77. Jan Krnavek (1)

Scala (1).

LANGUAGES


Python (1056), Haskell (421), Lua (284), C (270), Ruby (264), BQN (252), C++ (200), Node.js (179), Rust (179), Awk (163), Go (145), Java (135), Clojure (124), Bash (113), Nim (110), JavaScript (103), APL (101), Pascal (71), Bc (69), Prolog (67), R (64), Tcl (63), BASIC (61), Postscript (59), Forth (55), Excel VBA (54), Scala (54), Scheme (51), Lisp (41), Befunge-93 (30), Kotlin (29), PHP (28), D (25), Fortran (25), PostgreSQL (25), Swift (25), Julia (23), Ada (21), OCaml (20), SQL (17), Dart (16), Erlang (16), Elm (15), C Shell (14), COBOL (13), M4 (13), Rexx (12), Sed (12), MMIX (9), Smalltalk (9), Brainfuck (6), Ring (6), J (5), CESIL (3), Crystal (3), Gembase (3), Janet (3), Nuweb (3), Zig (3), C3 (2), Coconut (2), HTML (2), Haxe (2), Idris (2), Miranda (2), Modula 3 (2), Myrddin (2), Nix (2), Oberon (2), Odin (2), Wolfram (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 (1514), Jaldhar H. Vyas (1330), Roger Bell_West (1244), Arne Sommer (1136), Colin Crain (962), Athanasius (854), Adam Russell (758), Flavio Poletti (730), Luca Ferrari (728), Ulrich Rieke (712), Dave Jacoby (708), E. Choroba (684), Stuart Little (644), Paulo Custodio (596), Lubos Kolouch (578), Mohammad Sajid Anwar (552), Abigail (546), Jorg Sommrey (546), Duncan C. White (532), Simon Proctor (480), Javier Luque (460), James Smith (454), Ruben Westerberg (452), Cheok-Yin Fung (446), Simon Green (426), Mark Anderson (406), Wanderdoc (354), W. Luis Mochan (354), Feng Chang (336), Pete Houston (316), Niels van Dijke (306), Ryan Thompson (298), Jan Krnavek (276), Joelle Maslak (274), Andrezgz (246), Yet Ebreo (222), Markus Holzer (198), Steven Wilson (198), Myoungjin Jeon (192), Noud Aldenhoven (188), Andrew Shitov (180), Kevin Colyer (176), Aaron Smith (174), Walt Mankowski (168), Duane Powell (164), Kian-Meng Ang (162), Shahed Nooshmand (140), Bruce Gray (128), Cristina Heredia (124), Alexander Pankoff (120), Dave Cross (120), Mark Senn (120), Joan Mimosinnet (120), Kang-min Liu (118), Julio de Castro (116), Gustavo Chaves (112), Saif Ahmed (110), Bob Lied (108), Alicia Bielsa (106), Burkhard Nickels (106), Andinus (104), Matthew Neleigh (104), Nuno Vieira (104).

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]


Alexander Pankoff

Alexander Pankoff

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Cheok-Yin Fung

Cheok-Yin Fung

[PERL #2] [BLOG #1]


Dave Jacoby

Dave Jacoby

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


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]


Lubos Kolouch

Lubos Kolouch

[PERL #1]


Matthew Neleigh

Matthew Neleigh

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Niels van Dijke

Niels van Dijke

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Paulo Custodio

Paulo Custodio

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Pete Houston

Pete Houston

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Peter Campbell Smith

Peter Campbell Smith

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


Robert DiCicco

Robert DiCicco

[PERL #1]


Simon Green

Simon Green

[PERL #1] [BLOG #1]


W. Luis Mochan

W. Luis Mochan

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


RAKU SOLUTIONS


Feng Chang

Feng Chang

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Jan Krnavek

Jan Krnavek

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Luca Ferrari

Luca Ferrari

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


Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


PERL & RAKU SOLUTIONS


Arne Sommer

Arne Sommer

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


Athanasius

Athanasius

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


Bruce Gray

Bruce Gray

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


Colin Crain

Colin Crain

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


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


Mohammad Sajid Anwar

Mohammad Sajid Anwar

[PERL #1] [RAKU #1]


Roger Bell_West

Roger Bell_West

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


Ulrich Rieke

Ulrich Rieke

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


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