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Issue #517 - 2021-06-21 - Commitment and habit
latest | archive | edited by Gabor Szabo
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Hi there! Flavio Poletti has just completed one year of blogging. Mohammad S. Anwar has been editing the Perl Weekly for more than three years and running the Perl Weekly Challenge for more than two years. I am not sure what the secret is, but something about creating a commitment, even if it is an artificial commitment that then you need to stick to. I am sure both of them had times when they thought of sleeping in and not doing the work that day or that week. After all, this is not their paid job, but the commitment kept them going. With time it became easier to do the task and the whole thing became a habit. I wish more people found the strength to do something like this. Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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Celebrations
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Only one year? It feels as if Flavio has been posting for ages... Congratulations! | 
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Articles
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) PAUSE parses the text in your code to see which modules you provide. Unfortunately that means it also includes names that are only mentioned in the documentation or in strings that never get executed. This can lead to unpleasant side-effects. How can you avoid these? |
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by Mark Gardner Mark has been one of the most prolific writers about Perl recently. You might want to listen to him. | 
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Grants
Perl Weekly Challenge
The Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Anwar will help you step out of your comfort zone. You can even win prize money of a $50 Amazon voucher by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one winner at the end of the month from among all the contributors during the month. The monthly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of PerlCareers.
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Binary Palindrome" and "Adventure of Knight". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read FAQ page. | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Missing Rows" and "Find Possible Paths" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Adam Russell Credit must be given to Adam for printing the structured triangle and introducing the Qauntam Pascal Triangle. Thanks for sharing. | 
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by Arne Sommer Ever since Arne started sharing Perl solutions alongside Raku, I really enjoy the translation of Raku to get the Perl equivalent. Great work. Keep it up. |
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by Colin Crain As always, Colin's story behind each task is priceless, you don't want to miss thid. He is simply the best. Keep it going. Thanks. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio's regex magic for the Missing Rows task is mindblowing. It took me some time to understand it. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio's extensive discussion of the Find Possible Paths task is something you don't want to miss. It is the kind of discussion I always look for in a PWC blog. Thank you Flavio. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) I loved the fact that Dave is generating the input file on the fly. Nice hack. Also his idea of re-using his past solution and extending it to get the task done. Very clever approach. | 
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) This is a bonus blog post from Dave to give a detailed analysis of the task Find Possible Paths. Thanks for the post. |
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas I loved the explanation of Find Possible Paths solution. It is easy to follow for any layman. Thanks for your efforts. BTW congratulations on the second anniversay of your blogging. |
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by James Smith I always look for James's solution and his story behind the solution. He is so good at looking beyond the task and giving his opinions. I simply loved it. Keep it going. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Laurent presented us with short and precise solutions this week, specially the solution to the Find Possible Paths task. He made it look so simple. Great work, thanks for sharing. |
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by Luca Ferrari Luca's Raku solution to the Find Possible Paths task is my favourite this week. The code looks elegant. Thanks for your efforts. |
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by W Luis Mochan Luis showed the power of recursive functions when dealing with Find Possible Paths task. Nice and easy to follow, thanks. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) I loved the graphical representation of the Find Possible Paths task. It helped a lot to understand the solution. Thanks for all your hard work. |
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by Simon Green Thanks, Simon, for talking about Shroder Number. I didn't know about it. I learn so much by just reading the blogs by Team PWC. Thank you for your effort. |
Perl Tutorial
A section for newbies and for people who need some refreshing of their Perl knowledge. If you have questions or suggestions about the articles, let me know and I'll try to make the necessary changes. The included articles are from the Perl Maven Tutorial and are part of the Perl Maven eBook.
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Weekly collections
The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
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