RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 319

Sunday, May 4, 2025| Tags: Perl, Raku

TABLE OF CONTENTS


01. HEADLINES

02. STAR CONTRIBUTORS

03. CONTRIBUTION STATS

04. GUESTS

05. LANGUAGES

06. CENTURION CLUB

07. DAMIAN CONWAY’s CORNER

08. ANDREW SHITOV’s CORNER

09. 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. Packy Anderson

2. Roger Bell_West


Overall Contributions Stats:


1. Perl: 16530 (64%)

2. Raku: 9206 (36%)

3. Blog: 5840


CONTRIBUTION STATS


The total contributions in the week is 68. Well done Team PWC. I would also like to thank Raku contributors for catching up.

1. Perl: 36

2. Raku: 18

3. Blog: 14


GUESTS


1. Roger Bell_West (3016)

Bash (1), Crystal (100), JavaScript (331), Kotlin (336), Lua (326), Postscript (372), Python (471), Ruby (459), Rust (454), Scala (164), Typst (2).

2. 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).

3. Ulrich Rieke (1052)

Awk (3), C (2), C++ (372), Haskell (410), Java (9), Julia (1), Lisp (7), Python (1), Ruby (1), Rust (246).

4. Paulo Custodio (925)

Ada (21), Awk (28), BASIC (76), Bc (17), Brainfuck (5), C (141), C++ (101), D (14), Forth (80), Fortran (8), Lua (38), Pascal (6), Python (390).

5. Ali Moradi (795)

APL (1), Ada (14), C (55), C++ (67), D (62), Erlang (2), Gleam (2), Go (17), Haskell (10), Java (80), Lisp (20), Lua (96), Modula 3 (118), Nelua (12), Nim (24), OCaml (8), Oberon (47), Pascal (70), Python (38), Ruby (34), Rust (2), Scheme (4), Standard ML (6), Zig (6).

6. Lubos Kolouch (504)

Bash (6), C++ (1), Go (2), Java (18), JavaScript (1), PHP (9), Python (465), Ruby (1), VBA (1).

7. PokGoPun (493)

Dart (24), Go (288), Python (181).

8. David Ferrone (474)

C (115), JavaScript (109), Python (110), R (19), Rust (121).

9. Stuart Little (436)

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

10. Luca Ferrari (427)

Java (70), PostgreSQL (259), Python (98).

11. Laurent Rosenfeld (400)

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 (41), 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).

12. Eric Cheung (396)

Excel VBA (63), Python (333).

13. Robert DiCicco (350)

BASIC (2), Bash (1), Go (2), Julia (111), Lua (2), PowerShell (11), Python (71), Ruby (124), Rust (1), Tcl (25).

14. Simon Green (283)

Python (283).

15. AhmetEmre (282)

BQN (281), Javascript (1).

16. Tyler Wardhaugh (262)

Clojure (202), Fennel (8), Lua (36), Python (16).

17. Adam Russell (231)

C++ (26), Fortran (3), Java (16), JavaScript (6), Nuweb (3), Prolog (169), Python (2), R (6).

18. Conor Hoekstra (222)

APL (65), BQN (121), C++ (2), Haskell (6), J (8), Kap (4), Python (3), Rust (1), Uiua (12).

19. Packy Anderson (197)

Elixir (60), Java (8), Python (129).

20. Steven Wilson (147)

Haskell (1), JavaScript (13), Python (132), Rust (1).

21. BarrOff (143)

Ada (1), Awk (1), BQN (9), D (3), GP (2), Julia (83), Nim (36), Pascal (5), V (3).

22. Archar Gelod (124)

Nim (124).

23. Duncan C. White (103)

C (94), Pascal (6), Postscript (3).

24. Mohammad Sajid Anwar (103)

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

25. Mariano Spadaccini (102)

Bash (1), Elixir (12), Go (32), Korn Shell (2), Octave (1), Python (38), R (1), Ruby (15).

26. Cheok-Yin Fung (88)

Awk (3), Bash (6), Befunge-93 (1), C (1), C++ (1), Dart (4), Java (16), JavaScript (1), Julia (13), Lisp (25), Node (1), Node.js (3), Python (4), Smalltalk (9).

27. Mohammad Meraj Zia (86)

Java (78), Kotlin (8).

28. Myoungjin Jeon (85)

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

29. Asher Harvey-Smith (84)

APL (20), BQN (17), Haskell (14), Hy (10), J (17), K (2), Nu (4).

30. Richard Park (81)

APL (76), BQN (1), JavaScript (2), Python (2).

31. Peter Meszaros (70)

Tcl (70).

32. Nelo Tovar (67)

Bash (67).

33. Stephen G Lynn (59)

Julia (46), Python (13).

34. Thomas Kohler (54)

Python (54).

35. Andrew Schneider (48)

C (8), C++ (4), Erlang (2), Haskell (6), Julia (8), Prolog (4), Racket (6), Rust (10).

36. E. Alvarez (46)

Go (16), JavaScript (3), Python (21), Ruby (2), Rust (4).

37. Nuno Vieira (44)

JavaScript (44).

38. Walt Mankowski (43)

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

39. Andrew Shitov (40)

Bash (1), C (1), C# (1), C++ (11), D (1), Dart (1), Fortran (1), Go (2), HTML (1), Java (2), JavaScript (2), Julia (1), Kotlin (1), Lisp (1), Lua (1), PHP (1), Pascal (1), Python (5), Ruby (1), Rust (1), Scala (1), Typescript (1), XSLT (1).

40. Peter Pentchev (38)

Ada (2), Dart (2), Fish (2), Logo (2), Python (8), Rust (18), WebAssembly (4).

41. Dave Jacoby (35)

HTML (1), Node.js (14), Python (18), Rust (2).

42. Bruce Gray (34)

C (3), Dart (2), F# (6), Go (2), Java (2), JavaScript (2), Julia (2), Python (4), Rust (2), SVG (1), Scala (2), WebAssembly (2), YaBasic (2), Zig (2).

43. Marton Polgar (34)

Groovy (4), PHP (10), Prolog (20).

44. Shawn Wagner (27)

Java (2), OCaml (8), Prolog (2), Racket (4), Tcl (11).

45. Ian Goodnight (25)

JavaScript (12), Python (5), Ruby (6), TypeScript (2).

46. Andreas Voegele (22)

Kotlin (22).

47. Jan Krnavek (22)

Elixir (6), Julia (15), Scala (1).

48. Alexander Pankoff (21)

Haskell (21).

49. Cristina Heredia (21)

Python (21).

50. User Person (21)

Python (21).

51. Pete Houston (20)

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

52. Orestis Zekai (16)

Python (16).

53. Vamsi Meenavilli (15)

Java (1), Python (14).

54. Lucas Ransan (14)

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

55. Raghu R (14)

BQN (4), Factor (4), Prolog (6).

56. Simon Dueck (14)

F# (14).

57. Lance Wicks (13)

Elm (5), Go (4), Python (1), Roc (3).

58. Leo Manfredi (13)

Bash (2), Python (11).

59. Colin Crain (12)

Python (12).

60. Frank Oosterhuis (12)

Scala (12).

61. Kjetil Skotheim (12)

Scala (12).

62. Tymoteusz Moryto (12)

Uiua (12).

63. Wanderdoc (12)

R (12).

64. James Smith (11)

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

65. Jonas Berlin (11)

Rust (11).

66. E. Choroba (10)

C (1), C++ (2), Erlang (3), Python (4).

67. Mustafa Aydin (10)

C++ (10).

68. Tim King (10)

C# (9), Python (1).

69. Kang-min Liu (9)

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

70. Andre Ploger (8)

Go (8).

71. Andrew Grangaard (8)

Python (6), Rust (2).

72. Arne Sommer (8)

Bash (2), Node.js (1), PHP (1), Python (1), Ruby (2), SQL (1).

73. Ashwin Shenoy (8)

Dart (4), Python (4).

74. Aviral Goel (8)

Haskell (8).

75. Burkhard Nickels (8)

Python (8).

76. Ian Rifkin (8)

Python (8).

77. Joao Felipe (8)

APL (4), Python (2), Uiua (2).

78. Sangeet Kar (8)

Python (8).

79. Shawak (8)

Ruby (8).

80. Yves Orton (8)

C (2), JavaScript (4), Rust (2).

81. Alex Wilson (6)

Uiua (6).

82. Henry Wong (6)

PHP (6).

83. Kai Burgdorf (6)

JavaScript (6).

84. Magnus Markling (6)

Uiua (6).

85. Michael DiCicco (6)

Java (3), Python (3).

86. Robert McIntosh (6)

Python (6).

87. W. Luis Mochan (6)

Emacs Lisp (4), Julia (2).

88. izem (6)

Python (6).

89. Rage311 (5)

Haskell (2), Rust (3).

90. Augie De Blieck Jr. (4)

Elixir (2), JavaScript (1), Python (1).

91. Bartosz Jarzyna (4)

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

92. Ben Davies (4)

Idris (2), Scala (2).

93. Julien Fiegehenn (4)

TypeScript (4).

94. Karishma Rajput (4)

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

95. Kivanc Yazan (4)

Python (4).

96. Kueppo Wesley (4)

Node.js (4).

97. Macy TY (4)

JavaScript (4).

98. Mohammad Foda (4)

Haxe (2), Nim (2).

99. Philip Hood (4)

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

100. Yet Ebreo (4)

Python (2), Ruby (2).

101. Andinus (3)

C (3).

102. Gabor Szabo (3)

Crystal (3).

103. Guillermo Ramos (3)

Go (3).

104. Jorg Sommrey (3)

Maxima (1), Octave (2).

105. Mohammad Khalid Anwar (3)

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

106. Ryan Thompson (3)

C (1), Python (2).

107. Carlos Oliveira (2)

C (2).

108. Daniel Mita (2)

Go (1), JavaScript (1).

109. Dorian ‘vxern’ Oszczeda (2)

Uiua (2).

110. HVukman (2)

K (2).

111. Humberto Massa (2)

C++ (2).

112. Joelle Maslak (2)

Go (2).

113. Kaushik Tunuguntla (2)

Python (2).

114. Mariano Ortega (2)

Java (2).

115. Mark Anderson (2)

PowerShell (2).

116. Mark Senn (2)

Wolfram (2).

117. Richard Loveland (2)

K (2).

118. Ruth Holloway (2)

COBOL (2).

119. Tejas (2)

C++ (2).

120. Vinod Kumar K (2)

Python (2).

121. mauke (2)

Haskell (2).

122. Aaryan Rastogi (1)

JavaScript (1).

123. Andrea Piseri (1)

BQN (1).

124. Avery Adams (1)

Python (1).

125. Bob Lied (1)

C (1).

126. Chazzka (1)

Coconut (1).

127. Christian Jaeger (1)

Haskell (1).

128. Daniel Aberger (1)

Go (1).

129. Darren Bottin (1)

Prolog (1).

130. David Schwartz (1)

Python (1).

131. Gurunandan Bhat (1)

Go (1).

132. Jaldhar H. Vyas (1)

C++ (1).

133. Maxim Kolodyazhny (1)

Elixir (1).

134. Robbie Hatley (1)

C (1).

135. Roman Kotelnikov (1)

J (1).

136. Stephen G. Lynn (1)

Julia (1).

LANGUAGES


Python (3347), Rust (898), Ruby (793), Haskell (771), Lua (716), C++ (611), C (590), JavaScript (556), Go (481), BQN (434), Java (406), Postscript (391), Kotlin (387), Julia (324), PostgreSQL (259), Scala (246), Clojure (202), Prolog (202), Bash (200), Nim (198), Node.js (196), Awk (190), Tcl (172), APL (166), Pascal (164), Modula 3 (118), Crystal (103), BASIC (100), R (100), D (99), Forth (98), Bc (84), Elixir (81), Lisp (75), Excel VBA (63), Scheme (62), PHP (51), Oberon (47), Dart (46), Swift (41), Uiua (40), Ada (38), Befunge-93 (35), Fortran (33), OCaml (33), Erlang (26), J (26), SQL (24), COBOL (20), F# (20), Ring (20), C Shell (19), M4 (18), Rexx (17), Sed (16), Elm (15), MMIX (14), PowerShell (13), Nelua (12), Zig (11), C# (10), Hy (10), Racket (10), Smalltalk (9), Fennel (8), Brainfuck (6), K (6), Standard ML (6), TypeScript (6), WebAssembly (6), Coconut (4), Emacs Lisp (4), Factor (4), Groovy (4), Kap (4), Nu (4), CESIL (3), Fish (3), Gembase (3), Janet (3), Logo (3), Nuweb (3), Octave (3), Roc (3), V (3), C3 (2), Dc (2), GP (2), Gleam (2), HTML (2), Haxe (2), Idris (2), Korn Shell (2), Miranda (2), Myrddin (2), Nix (2), Odin (2), Typst (2), Wolfram (2), YaBasic (2), Bourne Shell (1), Chef (1), GNAT (1), IO (1), Javascript (1), Maxima (1), Mumps (1), Node (1), Ook (1), SVG (1), Typescript (1), VBA (1), Visual BASIC (1), XSLT (1).

CENTURION CLUB


Luca Ferrari (3090), Roger Bell_West (2920), Laurent Rosenfeld (2906), Jaldhar H. Vyas (2846), Arne Sommer (2212), Athanasius (2082), Ulrich Rieke (1920), Flavio Poletti (1716), Dave Jacoby (1450), Jorg Sommrey (1378), W. Luis Mochan (1372), E. Choroba (1368), Adam Russell (1360), Colin Crain (1336), Lubos Kolouch (1288), Paulo Custodio (1188), Simon Green (1168), Peter Campbell Smith (1078), Mark Anderson (1054), Thomas Kohler (954), Feng Chang (902), Cheok-Yin Fung (892), James Smith (882), Jan Krnavek (864), Ali Moradi (812), Duncan C. White (794), Bob Lied (764), Niels van Dijke (756), Robbie Hatley (742), Mohammad Sajid Anwar (718), Packy Anderson (712), Bruce Gray (674), Stuart Little (644), Robert Ransbottom (620), Wanderdoc (612), David Ferrone (596), Abigail (574), Robert DiCicco (574), Matthew Neleigh (562), Matthias Muth (560), Simon Proctor (560), Peter Meszaros (480), Stephen G. Lynn (478), Javier Luque (460), Ruben Westerberg (452), Ryan Thompson (442), BarrOff (422), Pete Houston (360), Joelle Maslak (314), Kjetil Skotheim (300), Steven Wilson (284), Andrezgz (264), Andrew Shitov (254), Yet Ebreo (222), Alexander Pankoff (220), Markus Holzer (198), Walt Mankowski (196), Myoungjin Jeon (192), Solathian (192), Noud Aldenhoven (188), Marton Polgar (182), Avery Adams (176), Kevin Colyer (176), Nelo Tovar (176), Aaron Smith (174), Duane Powell (164), Kian-Meng Ang (162), Reinier Maliepaard (162), Mark Senn (156), Mariano Spadaccini (142), Dave Cross (140), Shahed Nooshmand (140), Andinus (132), Pip Stuart (132), Humberto Massa (128), Cristina Heredia (126), Joan Mimosinnet (120), Kang-min Liu (118), Santiago Leyva (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


Ali Moradi

Ali Moradi

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


Andreas Mahnke

Andreas Mahnke

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


David Ferrone

David Ferrone

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


E. Choroba

E. Choroba

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Jorg Sommrey

Jorg Sommrey

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


Matthias Muth

Matthias Muth

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


Niels van Dijke

Niels van Dijke

[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]


Thomas Kohler

Thomas Kohler

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


Vinod Kumar K

Vinod Kumar K

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


W. Luis Mochan

W. Luis Mochan

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


Wanderdoc

Wanderdoc

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


RAKU SOLUTIONS


Arne Sommer

Arne Sommer

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


Feng Chang

Feng Chang

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Jan Krnavek

Jan Krnavek

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson

[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]


Packy Anderson

Packy Anderson

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