RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 153

Saturday, Dec 27, 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. Alexander Pankoff

2. Colin Crain

3. Flavio Poletti

4. Jaldhar H. Vyas

5. Laurent Rosenfeld

6. Roger Bell_West


Overall Contributions Stats:


1. Perl: 7717 (63%)

2. Raku: 4441 (37%)

3. Blog: 2326


CONTRIBUTION STATS


The total contributions in the week is 102. Well done Team PWC. I would also like to thank Raku contributors for catching up.

1. Perl: 53

2. Raku: 31

3. Blog: 18


GUESTS


1. Abigail (1441)

Awk (118), BASIC (19), Bash (106), Bc (55), Befunge-93 (31), Brainfuck (1), C (120), C Shell (16), COBOL (15), Chef (1), Erlang (16), Forth (15), Fortran (17), Go (62), Java (59), Lua (106), M4 (15), MMIX (11), Mumps (1), Node.js (125), OCaml (14), Ook (1), PHP (14), Pascal (62), Postscript (13), Python (110), R (57), Rexx (14), Ruby (104), SQL (20), Scheme (55), Sed (12), Tcl (56).

2. Paulo Custodio (678)

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 (306).

3. Roger Bell_West (534)

Bash (1), JavaScript (16), Kotlin (21), Lua (20), Postscript (53), Python (153), Ruby (141), Rust (129).

4. Stuart Little (436)

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

5. Lubos Kolouch (238)

Bash (1), C++ (1), Go (1), Java (11), JavaScript (1), PHP (7), Python (214), Ruby (1), VBA (1).

6. AhmetEmre (234)

BQN (234).

7. Ulrich Rieke (230)

Awk (1), C (2), C++ (99), Haskell (118), Java (3), Lisp (7).

8. Laurent Rosenfeld (210)

Awk (13), Bash (2), Bc (4), Bourne Shell (1), C (13), C++ (1), D (8), Dart (3), Gembase (3), Go (8), IO (1), Java (2), Julia (17), Kotlin (7), Lua (9), Nim (4), Pascal (6), Python (30), R (1), Ring (8), Ruby (14), Rust (10), Scala (40), Sed (1), Tcl (2), Visual BASIC (1), Zig (1).

9. Tyler Wardhaugh (178)

Clojure (128), 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 (95)

C++ (24), Nuweb (3), Prolog (68).

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 (68)

Excel VBA (59), Python (9).

16. PokGoPun (64)

Dart (12), Go (52).

17. Conor Hoekstra (62)

APL (35), BQN (17), C++ (1), Haskell (4), J (5).

18. Cheok-Yin Fung (59)

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

19. Mohammad Meraj Zia (50)

Java (42), Kotlin (8).

20. Mohammad Sajid Anwar (46)

Java (9), Python (12), Swift (25).

21. Ali Moradi (44)

Ada (2), C (6), C++ (6), D (4), Go (2), Lua (6), Modula 3 (2), Nim (2), Oberon (4), Pascal (6), Python (2), Ruby (2).

22. Nuno Vieira (44)

JavaScript (44).

23. Walt Mankowski (36)

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

24. 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).

25. Luca Ferrari (25)

PostgreSQL (25).

26. Simon Green (25)

Python (25).

27. Ian Goodnight (21)

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

28. Shawn Wagner (21)

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

29. User Person (21)

Python (21).

30. Cristina Heredia (20)

Python (20).

31. Pete Houston (19)

Awk (11), Bash (1), C (2), Fortran (1), Lua (2), Python (2).

32. Dave Jacoby (18)

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

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. Alexander Pankoff (9)

Haskell (9).

41. E. Alvarez (9)

Go (8), Python (1).

42. Kang-min Liu (9)

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

43. Aviral Goel (8)

Haskell (8).

44. Bruce Gray (8)

C (3), Dart (2), SVG (1), WebAssembly (2).

45. Burkhard Nickels (8)

Python (8).

46. Lance Wicks (8)

Elm (5), Go (3).

47. Leo Manfredi (8)

Bash (2), Python (6).

48. Robert DiCicco (8)

Ruby (6), Tcl (2).

49. Sangeet Kar (8)

Python (8).

50. Shawak (8)

Ruby (8).

51. Steven Wilson (8)

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

52. Henry Wong (6)

PHP (6).

53. Arne Sommer (5)

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

54. Ben Davies (4)

Idris (2), Scala (2).

55. Karishma Rajput (4)

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

56. Kivanc Yazan (4)

Python (4).

57. Mohammad Foda (4)

Haxe (2), Nim (2).

58. Philip Hood (4)

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

59. Yet Ebreo (4)

Python (2), Ruby (2).

60. Andinus (3)

C (3).

61. Duncan C. White (3)

Postscript (3).

62. E. Choroba (3)

C (1), Erlang (2).

63. Gabor Szabo (3)

Crystal (3).

64. Guillermo Ramos (3)

Go (3).

65. Mohammad Khalid Anwar (3)

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

66. Rage311 (3)

Rust (3).

67. Bartosz Jarzyna (2)

PHP (2).

68. Daniel Mita (2)

Go (1), JavaScript (1).

69. Mark Senn (2)

Wolfram (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 (1102), Haskell (431), Lua (306), Ruby (286), C (282), BQN (252), C++ (211), Rust (188), Node.js (187), Awk (174), Go (159), Java (142), Clojure (128), Bash (121), Nim (112), JavaScript (111), APL (103), Pascal (81), Bc (76), Tcl (71), R (70), Postscript (69), Prolog (69), BASIC (63), Excel VBA (59), Forth (57), Scala (56), Scheme (55), Lisp (41), Kotlin (39), PHP (36), Befunge-93 (32), D (27), Fortran (27), Julia (25), PostgreSQL (25), Swift (25), Ada (23), OCaml (22), Dart (20), SQL (20), Erlang (18), C Shell (16), COBOL (15), Elm (15), M4 (15), Rexx (14), Sed (13), MMIX (11), Smalltalk (9), Ring (8), Brainfuck (6), J (5), Oberon (4), 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), Odin (2), WebAssembly (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 (1554), Jaldhar H. Vyas (1370), Roger Bell_West (1284), Arne Sommer (1164), Colin Crain (1008), Athanasius (886), Flavio Poletti (778), Adam Russell (772), Luca Ferrari (752), Ulrich Rieke (744), Dave Jacoby (734), E. Choroba (700), Stuart Little (644), Paulo Custodio (612), Lubos Kolouch (594), Abigail (566), Mohammad Sajid Anwar (564), Jorg Sommrey (562), Duncan C. White (548), Simon Proctor (480), James Smith (478), Javier Luque (460), Cheok-Yin Fung (452), Ruben Westerberg (452), Simon Green (446), Mark Anderson (422), W. Luis Mochan (378), Wanderdoc (354), Feng Chang (344), Pete Houston (324), Niels van Dijke (310), Ryan Thompson (298), Jan Krnavek (286), Joelle Maslak (274), Andrezgz (246), Yet Ebreo (222), Markus Holzer (198), Steven Wilson (198), Myoungjin Jeon (192), Noud Aldenhoven (188), Andrew Shitov (182), Kevin Colyer (176), Aaron Smith (174), Walt Mankowski (168), Duane Powell (164), Kian-Meng Ang (162), Alexander Pankoff (156), Bruce Gray (150), Shahed Nooshmand (140), Cristina Heredia (124), Dave Cross (120), Mark Senn (120), Joan Mimosinnet (120), Peter Campbell Smith (120), Kang-min Liu (118), Julio de Castro (116), Matthew Neleigh (116), Gustavo Chaves (112), Saif Ahmed (110), Bob Lied (108), Alicia Bielsa (106), Burkhard Nickels (106), Andinus (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]


Adam Russell

Adam Russell

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


Ali Moradi

Ali Moradi

[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]


Lubos Kolouch

Lubos Kolouch

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Matthew Neleigh

Matthew Neleigh

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Mohammad Sajid Anwar

Mohammad Sajid Anwar

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Olivier Delouya

Olivier Delouya

[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]


PokGoPun

PokGoPun

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


W. Luis Mochan

W. Luis Mochan

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


RAKU SOLUTIONS


Arne Sommer

Arne Sommer

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


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]


Marton Polgar

Marton Polgar

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Robert Ransbottom

Robert Ransbottom

[RAKU #2]


PERL & RAKU SOLUTIONS


Alexander Pankoff

Alexander Pankoff

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


Athanasius

Athanasius

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


Bruce Gray

Bruce Gray

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


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]


Robert DiCicco

Robert DiCicco

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


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] [RAKU #2]


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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