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Weekly Challenge

“Missing Members”: The Live Blog

This week’s weekly challenge causes me to trip over an issue I saw in last week’s Perl Weekly newsletter. Great timing!

By augiedb, 2 yearsNovember 12, 2023 ago
Weekly Challenge

An Attempt to Simplify Fails, But Works

Two relatively easy challenges result in simple responses that still take up too much space.

By augiedb, 2 yearsOctober 28, 2023 ago
Weekly Challenge

“Same String”: Let’s Functionalize the #$%@# Out of This One

I wrote a Perl script that feels so functional that it was super simple to rewrite it even better in Elixir.

By augiedb, 2 yearsOctober 22, 2023 ago
Weekly Challenge

Persistence Sort, In Which I Give Up and Use a Global 🌎

An attempt to write a persistence sort ends in a global variable, but also recursion! You take the good with the bad…

By augiedb, 2 yearsOctober 14, 2023 ago
Weekly Challenge

Running Sum, or “I ♥️ Recursion”

In which the author starts The Weekly Challenge with a simple recursive algorithm to provide a running sum of an array. And then goes overboard…

By augiedb, 2 yearsOctober 14, 2023 ago
Perl

Hypocrisy and Typed Languages: A Perl-ish Rant

Do people really want typed languages? And, hey, look who was out front on this one!

By augiedb, 3 yearsJuly 7, 2023 ago

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  • “Same String” Part Deux: Now In Javascript and Python
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