Merge pull request #302 from jacoby/p14

I Did A Perl6!

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+#!/usr/bin/env perl6
+
+# My first Perl6 entry!
+
+# This took a bit. First I had to wipe and redo my rakudobrew, 
+# because I pull out Perl 6 once every two years or so. Looking
+# at Damian Conway's Perl 6 solutions, I can't help but think this
+# is "baby perl 6" (which I'm sure Larry would say is okay), but
+# there's a command or two that solve everything, as long as you
+# throw away decades of mental models to get there.
+
+# I did a qw{} in Perl 5, but I was afraid and just made the 
+# array myself here.
+
+
+my %states = map { $_ => 1 } , 
+    "AL","AK","AZ","AR","CA","CO","CT","DE","FL","GA",
+    "HI","ID","IL","IN","IA","KS","KY","LA","ME","MD",
+    "MA","MI","MN","MS","MO","MT","NE","NV","NH","NJ",
+    "NM","NY","NC","ND","OH","OK","OR","PA","RI","SC",
+    "CD","TN","TX","UT","VT","VA","WA","WV","WI","WY";
+
+my @words = '/usr/share/dict/words'.IO.lines;
+
+# when testing, use a smaller data set
+# @words = "PACT","WIND","PERL","CALAMARI"; 
+
+my $longest = '';
+MAIN: for @words -> $word {
+    my @word = $word ~~ m:g/\w ** 2/;
+
+    my $join = @word.join('');
+    next if $join ne $word;
+
+    for @word -> $wo {
+        my $n = %states{$wo.uc} ?? 1 !! 0;
+        next MAIN unless $n;
+    }
+
+    $longest = $word if $longest.chars < $word.chars;
+    }
+
+say $longest;
+
+# the word-list I have here is smaller than the one I have on my 
+# laptop, so the longest word I have is "Concorde", being
+#   Colorado
+#   North Carolina
+#   Oregon
+#   Delaware
+
+# but my Perl 5 version gets the same, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
+
+# I am disappointed by the speed drop, tho
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