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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Paradigm Shift - Don't use strict Ovid 268
2 On Commenting Out 'use strict;' Old_Gray_Bear 220
3 Shipping standalone perl apps on Win32 crenz 187
4 Re: Perl needs Zend brian_d_foy 159
5 Editing features for advanced users gmax 157
6 When the Best Solution Isn't sauoq 155
7 (tye)Re: A question of style tye 155
8 New "feature" -- view nodes as they were originally posted blakem 146
9 Ook interpreter GrandFather 145
10 Programming Mantras dws 143
11 Re: How can I visualize my complex data structure? planetscape 141
12 Das Email Blinkenlight beretboy 140
13 Displaying/buffering huge text files spurperl 138
14 Coroutines in Perl leriksen 136
15 code-sharing at work. geekgrrl 133
16 Perl Desktop Applications chromatic 132
17 Value of "RE"-coding for the newbie Limbic~Region 130
18 Stupid Emotional Programmer Attachment, anyone? talexb 129
19 The PerlMonks algorithm gmax 129
20 The crime under reusability pg 126
21 HTML::Tree(Builder) in 6 minutes trs80 123
22 Re: XML for databases?!?! Is it just me or is the rest of the world nutz? mirod 121
23 Bootstrapping Techies (or how to hire without technical knowledge) pjf 115
24 1-D Cellular Automata YuckFoo 115
25 The other YAPC::Europe T-shirt BooK 115
26 Benchmark.pm: Does subroutine testing order bias results? jkeenan1 114
27 Perldocs and peer reviews g0n 113
28 networking over the loopback dash2 113
29 A Peruvian Congressman counters MS FUD dws 113
30 Re: •web site design, or lack thereof Hero Zzyzzx 110
31 Re: (stephen) Hash Tutorial stephen 110
32 Performance, Abstraction and HOP pg 109
33 Monk DNA Lysander 109
34 The PerlMonks FAQ has been updated boo_radley 107
35 Re: Re: Future of Perl, Future of the Monastery theorbtwo 107
36 Re: The One True Style of indentation: JayBonci 107
37 Re: The Ethics of Webbots dragonchild 106
38 How common is mod_perl? jerrygarciuh 106
39 Anonymous Data Structures: How Do They Work? jonjacobmoon 105
40 Re: Too Modest To Brag Erudil 105
41 40,053 Philosophical Errors Zaxo 104
42 Re: On Creating an Effective Work Environment chromatic 104
43 Yet Another Web Framework philcrow 102
44 public key encryption perrin 102
45 perl.org and DNS: A Hate Story idsfa 101
46 No Comment awkmonk 101
47 ode to strict jlongino 101
48 What would you put on a Perl mug? jarich 100
49 Re: Fun With Reserved Keywords Chady 100
50 Don't Allow Author to Front Page a Node ignatz 100
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