Joelle's solutions for 29.2 in Perl 5 & Perl 6

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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+use v5.22;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use Inline 'C';
+
+MAIN: {
+    say "15! = " . factorial(15);
+}
+
+__END__
+__C__
+
+long factorial(long x) {
+    if (x < 0) { return -1; }
+    if (x < 1) { return  1; }
+
+    return x * factorial(x-1);
+}
+
diff --git a/challenge-029/joelle-maslak/perl6/ch-2.p6 b/challenge-029/joelle-maslak/perl6/ch-2.p6
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+#!/usr/bin/env perl6
+use v6;
+
+use NativeCall;
+
+sub MAIN(UInt:D $seconds = 2) {
+    my $ret = native-sleep($seconds);
+    say "Sleep returned a value of $ret";
+}
+
+# This will fail on 32 bit environments, you can't use "uint" for types
+# unfortunately.  But if someone knows a workaround so you don't have to
+# specify length (just use native C lengths), I'd love to hear that.
+my sub native-sleep(uint64 -->uint64) is native is symbol('sleep') { * }
+