Is it really me ranked first in the Perl Weekly Challenge?

The Perl Weekly Challenge, now The Weekly Challenge is a very interesting project that I liked to join. The idea is as simple as fascinating: every week, two problems are posted, and you have to solve them programmatically. Initially, it was designed to be a Perl contest, hence Perl Weekly Challenge, but then people, including yours truly, started to post solutions in non-Perl languages, hence the change of the name, I use this challenges to stay up-to-date with the usage of as many language as my brain can remember, that include Perl and Raku (of course), Python, Java, and PL/PgSQL. This means that, usually, I post 10 solutions, and this gave me a quick jump in the amount of “contributions” done. Today, I’m listed as the number one contributor! Clearly, quantity is not the same as quality, hence being on the top of the rank does not mean that my solutions and implementations are the best, it simply means I did more code than other participants!

Perl Weekly Challenge ranking as of November 2024

The article Is it really me ranked first in the Perl Weekly Challenge? has been posted by Luca Ferrari on November 27, 2024