RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 202

Sunday, Jan 4, 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. Flavio Poletti

2. Jaldhar H. Vyas

3. Laurent Rosenfeld

4. Roger Bell_West


Overall Contributions Stats:


1. Perl: 10401 (63%)

2. Raku: 5998 (37%)

3. Blog: 3304


CONTRIBUTION STATS


The total contributions in the week is 106. Well done Team PWC. I would also like to thank Raku contributors for catching up.

1. Perl: 56

2. Raku: 27

3. Blog: 23


GUESTS


1. Abigail (1540)

Awk (122), BASIC (22), Bash (110), Bc (58), Befunge-93 (34), Brainfuck (1), C (124), C Shell (19), COBOL (18), Chef (1), Erlang (19), Forth (18), Fortran (20), Go (66), Java (63), Lua (110), M4 (18), MMIX (14), Mumps (1), Node.js (129), OCaml (17), Ook (1), PHP (17), Pascal (66), Postscript (16), Python (114), R (61), Rexx (17), Ruby (108), SQL (23), Scheme (58), Sed (15), Tcl (60).

2. Roger Bell_West (1187)

Bash (1), JavaScript (110), Kotlin (115), Lua (106), Postscript (146), Python (248), Ruby (236), Rust (225).

3. Paulo Custodio (811)

Ada (21), Awk (28), BASIC (62), Bc (17), Brainfuck (5), C (115), C++ (75), D (14), Forth (60), Fortran (8), Lua (38), Pascal (6), Python (362).

4. Stuart Little (436)

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

5. Ulrich Rieke (429)

Awk (1), C (2), C++ (171), Haskell (202), Java (9), Lisp (7), Rust (37).

6. Laurent Rosenfeld (396)

Awk (22), Bash (2), Bc (9), Bourne Shell (1), C (21), C++ (1), Coconut (1), D (19), Dart (9), Dc (2), Gembase (3), Go (16), IO (1), Java (9), JavaScript (11), Julia (37), Kotlin (18), Lua (16), Nim (12), Pascal (9), Python (50), R (1), Ring (20), Ruby (30), Rust (15), Scala (52), Sed (1), Tcl (6), Visual BASIC (1), Zig (1).

7. Lubos Kolouch (323)

Bash (1), C++ (1), Go (1), Java (11), JavaScript (1), PHP (7), Python (299), Ruby (1), VBA (1).

8. Ali Moradi (311)

Ada (14), C (27), C++ (37), D (34), Go (2), Haskell (2), Lua (44), Modula 3 (28), Nelua (12), Nim (22), Oberon (25), Pascal (42), Python (20), Ruby (2).

9. AhmetEmre (274)

BQN (273), Javascript (1).

10. Tyler Wardhaugh (232)

Clojure (172), Fennel (8), Lua (36), Python (16).

11. Adam Russell (166)

C++ (26), Fortran (3), Java (16), Nuweb (3), Prolog (118).

12. Eric Cheung (166)

Excel VBA (63), Python (103).

13. Robert DiCicco (158)

BASIC (2), Bash (1), Go (2), Julia (57), Lua (1), Python (17), Ruby (66), Tcl (12).

14. PokGoPun (130)

Dart (24), Go (106).

15. David Ferrone (122)

C (29), JavaScript (29), Python (29), Rust (35).

16. Luca Ferrari (107)

PostgreSQL (107).

17. Archar Gelod (104)

Nim (104).

18. Mohammad Sajid Anwar (103)

Java (27), Python (35), Swift (41).

19. Conor Hoekstra (92)

APL (56), BQN (21), C++ (2), Haskell (5), J (8).

20. Simon Green (86)

Python (86).

21. Myoungjin Jeon (85)

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

22. Duncan C. White (77)

C (68), Pascal (6), Postscript (3).

23. Mohammad Meraj Zia (75)

Java (67), Kotlin (8).

24. Richard Park (73)

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

25. Cheok-Yin Fung (72)

Awk (3), Bash (6), Befunge-93 (1), C++ (1), Dart (4), Java (16), JavaScript (1), Julia (13), Lisp (11), Node.js (3), Python (4), Smalltalk (9).

26. Stephen G Lynn (46)

Julia (46).

27. Nuno Vieira (44)

JavaScript (44).

28. Walt Mankowski (43)

C (8), C++ (4), Python (31).

29. E. Alvarez (37)

Go (16), Python (21).

30. 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).

31. Alexander Pankoff (21)

Haskell (21).

32. Cristina Heredia (21)

Python (21).

33. Ian Goodnight (21)

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

34. Shawn Wagner (21)

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

35. User Person (21)

Python (21).

36. Pete Houston (20)

Awk (11), Bash (1), C (2), Fortran (1), Lua (3), Python (2).

37. Bruce Gray (18)

C (3), Dart (2), Go (2), Julia (2), Python (2), Rust (2), SVG (1), WebAssembly (2), YaBasic (2).

38. Dave Jacoby (18)

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

39. Orestis Zekai (16)

Python (16).

40. Steven Wilson (15)

Haskell (1), JavaScript (1), Python (12), Rust (1).

41. Lucas Ransan (14)

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

42. Vamsi Meenavilli (13)

Java (1), Python (12).

43. Colin Crain (12)

Python (12).

44. Frank Oosterhuis (12)

Scala (12).

45. Wanderdoc (12)

R (12).

46. James Smith (11)

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

47. Jonas Berlin (11)

Rust (11).

48. Kang-min Liu (9)

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

49. Aviral Goel (8)

Haskell (8).

50. Burkhard Nickels (8)

Python (8).

51. Jan Krnavek (8)

Julia (7), Scala (1).

52. Lance Wicks (8)

Elm (5), Go (3).

53. Leo Manfredi (8)

Bash (2), Python (6).

54. Sangeet Kar (8)

Python (8).

55. Shawak (8)

Ruby (8).

56. Andrew Grangaard (6)

Python (4), Rust (2).

57. Henry Wong (6)

PHP (6).

58. Mariano Spadaccini (6)

Go (4), Python (2).

59. Michael DiCicco (6)

Java (3), Python (3).

60. W. Luis Mochan (6)

Emacs Lisp (4), Julia (2).

61. izem (6)

Python (6).

62. Arne Sommer (5)

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

63. Joao Felipe (5)

APL (3), Python (2).

64. Bartosz Jarzyna (4)

C (1), PHP (2), Pascal (1).

65. Ben Davies (4)

Idris (2), Scala (2).

66. E. Choroba (4)

C (1), Erlang (3).

67. Julien Fiegehenn (4)

TypeScript (4).

68. Karishma Rajput (4)

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

69. Kivanc Yazan (4)

Python (4).

70. Kueppo Wesley (4)

Node.js (4).

71. Mohammad Foda (4)

Haxe (2), Nim (2).

72. Philip Hood (4)

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

73. Yet Ebreo (4)

Python (2), Ruby (2).

74. Andinus (3)

C (3).

75. Gabor Szabo (3)

Crystal (3).

76. Guillermo Ramos (3)

Go (3).

77. Mohammad Khalid Anwar (3)

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

78. Rage311 (3)

Rust (3).

79. Daniel Mita (2)

Go (1), JavaScript (1).

80. Humberto Massa (2)

C++ (2).

81. Mark Senn (2)

Wolfram (2).

82. Marton Polgar (2)

Prolog (2).

83. Tejas (2)

C++ (2).

84. Aaryan Rastogi (1)

JavaScript (1).

85. Bob Lied (1)

C (1).

86. Christian Jaeger (1)

Haskell (1).

87. Daniel Aberger (1)

Go (1).

88. Darren Bottin (1)

Prolog (1).

89. David Schwartz (1)

Python (1).

90. Gurunandan Bhat (1)

Go (1).

91. Jaldhar H. Vyas (1)

C++ (1).

92. Jorg Sommrey (1)

Maxima (1).

93. Maxim Kolodyazhny (1)

Elixir (1).

94. Robbie Hatley (1)

C (1).

95. Roman Kotelnikov (1)

J (1).

96. Stephen G. Lynn (1)

Julia (1).

LANGUAGES


Python (1642), Haskell (530), Ruby (461), Lua (443), C (410), C++ (337), Rust (336), BQN (295), Go (243), Java (225), JavaScript (216), Node.js (196), Awk (187), Clojure (172), Julia (166), Postscript (165), Kotlin (144), Nim (140), Pascal (131), APL (127), Bash (126), Prolog (121), PostgreSQL (107), Tcl (89), BASIC (86), Bc (84), Forth (78), R (74), D (68), Scala (68), Excel VBA (63), Scheme (58), Lisp (41), Swift (41), Dart (40), PHP (39), Ada (35), Befunge-93 (35), Fortran (33), Modula 3 (28), OCaml (25), Oberon (25), SQL (23), Erlang (22), Ring (20), C Shell (19), COBOL (18), M4 (18), Rexx (17), Sed (16), Elm (15), MMIX (14), Nelua (12), J (9), Smalltalk (9), Fennel (8), Brainfuck (6), Emacs Lisp (4), TypeScript (4), CESIL (3), Coconut (3), Crystal (3), Gembase (3), Janet (3), Nuweb (3), Zig (3), C3 (2), Dc (2), HTML (2), Haxe (2), Idris (2), Miranda (2), Myrddin (2), Nix (2), Odin (2), WebAssembly (2), Wolfram (2), YaBasic (2), Bourne Shell (1), C# (1), Chef (1), Elixir (1), Fish (1), GNAT (1), IO (1), Javascript (1), Logo (1), Maxima (1), Mumps (1), Ook (1), SVG (1), VBA (1), Visual BASIC (1), XSLT (1).

CENTURION CLUB


Laurent Rosenfeld (2026), Jaldhar H. Vyas (1870), Roger Bell_West (1772), Arne Sommer (1510), Luca Ferrari (1436), Flavio Poletti (1356), Colin Crain (1322), Athanasius (1256), Ulrich Rieke (1094), Adam Russell (1058), Dave Jacoby (944), E. Choroba (900), Paulo Custodio (808), Lubos Kolouch (792), James Smith (770), Jorg Sommrey (752), Duncan C. White (734), Mohammad Sajid Anwar (718), W. Luis Mochan (676), Cheok-Yin Fung (654), Stuart Little (644), Simon Green (626), Mark Anderson (610), Abigail (574), Simon Proctor (520), Javier Luque (460), Ruben Westerberg (452), Jan Krnavek (448), Niels van Dijke (442), Feng Chang (438), Ryan Thompson (390), Peter Campbell Smith (388), Pete Houston (360), Wanderdoc (358), Bruce Gray (346), Robert DiCicco (330), Stephen G. Lynn (322), Joelle Maslak (274), Andrezgz (252), Matthew Neleigh (242), Bob Lied (230), Yet Ebreo (222), Alexander Pankoff (220), Steven Wilson (210), Robert Ransbottom (208), Markus Holzer (198), Walt Mankowski (196), Myoungjin Jeon (192), Noud Aldenhoven (188), Andrew Shitov (182), Kevin Colyer (176), Aaron Smith (174), Ali Moradi (166), Duane Powell (164), Kian-Meng Ang (162), Marton Polgar (158), Mark Senn (156), Dave Cross (140), Shahed Nooshmand (140), Andinus (132), Cristina Heredia (126), Joan Mimosinnet (120), David Ferrone (120), Kang-min Liu (118), Julio de Castro (116), Saif Ahmed (114), Gustavo Chaves (112), Alicia Bielsa (106), Burkhard Nickels (106), 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


Adam Russell

Adam Russell

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


Bob Lied

Bob Lied

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Carlos Oliveira

Carlos Oliveira

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Cheok-Yin Fung

Cheok-Yin Fung

[PERL #1]


Colin Crain

Colin Crain

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


Dave Jacoby

Dave Jacoby

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


David Ferrone

David Ferrone

[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]


Kjetil Skotheim

Kjetil Skotheim

[PERL #1]


Lubos Kolouch

Lubos Kolouch

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Mariano Spadaccini

Mariano Spadaccini

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Paulo Custodio

Paulo Custodio

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Peter Campbell Smith

Peter Campbell Smith

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


Peter Meszaros

Peter Meszaros

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Robbie Hatley

Robbie Hatley

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


Simon Green

Simon Green

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


Solathian

Solathian

[PERL #1]


Thomas Kohler

Thomas Kohler

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [BLOG #1] [BLOG #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] [BLOG #3] [BLOG #4] [BLOG #5] [BLOG #6]


Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Marton Polgar

Marton Polgar

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Robert Ransbottom

Robert Ransbottom

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


PERL & RAKU SOLUTIONS


Athanasius

Athanasius

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


Pip Stuart

Pip Stuart

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


Robert DiCicco

Robert DiCicco

[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] [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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