The second task of last week's Weekly Challenge

Many of the participants went to great lengths to create efficient and accurate solutions:
tracking the last day of each month, detecting leap years correctly,
working out formulas for the day of the month for a particular date,
managing the complex date arithmetic required.

Sigh. It's always the way, isn't it?

You no sooner get done writing about how having the right tools can make a particular coding task trivially easy...when you realize that, right next door, there was a much better example you could have used to make exactly the same point.

The "longest initial subpath" example I talked about in my previous post was challenge #2 of last week's Weekly Challenge. B…

A few years ago, I created a talk (and later an entire class) about "transparadigm programming" in Raku.

The basic premise was that while some languages restrict you to only a single hammer (or worse: a box full of hammers), Raku was designed to be a complete toolkit: integrating OO, functional, concurrent, declarative, and procedural tools to allow you to choose exactly the right combination for each job.

That idea came back to me in ful…