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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Code Smarter japhy 244
2 use CGI or die; Ovid 237
3 On Commenting Out 'use strict;' Old_Gray_Bear 220
4 CGI::Simple vs CGI.pm - Is twice as fast good enough? tachyon 205
5 Categorized Damian Modules TheDamian 175
6 Structured obfuscation gmax 160
7 Why I hate File::Find and how I (hope I) fixed it mirod 160
8 Productivity and Perl Ovid 159
9 Why Perl 6 is taking so !@#$ long dragonchild 156
10 Web Security merlyn 154
11 "Tired of FUD" Followup: Where the Jobs Are renodino 147
12 Don't Retitle This Node sauoq 144
13 Is Safe.pm unsafe? crazyinsomniac 142
14 Perl and Address labels, oh yeah! brian_d_foy 140
15 (OT) The Honest Cherry Bomb Ovid 140
16 (ichi) Re: Professional Employees and Works for Hire ichimunki 139
17 Paul Graham on Great Hackers biosysadmin 138
18 Re: One Liners davido 137
19 How Scheme and Perl Became Friends beppu 137
20 code-sharing at work. geekgrrl 133
21 Google - tastic! andye 132
22 Installing Perl on the Sharp Zaurus PDA davido 131
23 Breaking The Rules II Limbic~Region 127
24 Categorized best nodes gmax 126
25 •Re: Perl - Is it an OO Language merlyn 126
26 What Kind Of Programmer Are You? jcwren 124
27 Re: Professional Employees and Works for Hire croaker 122
28 Transcramble - Random text generator OeufMayo 122
29 The nature of work tilly 122
30 Random Top Nodes demerphq 121
31 Never use Storable to save XS objects Jouke 119
32 Maintainable Code? vek 119
33 Perl advocacy, CGI/ModPerl vs ASP/JSP rinceWind 119
34 Re: TMTOWTDI... and most of them are wrong TimToady 117
35 Applying regexes to streams: Perl enhancement idea tye 115
36 Don't have a COW? Get one! japhy 115
37 When test-driven development just won't do Ovid 113
38 Starting a Large Project defyance 110
39 Re: Why Perl 6 is taking so !@#$ long tilly 108
40 Re: Personal library with CPAN Zaxo 108
41 Reciprocating to the perl community stonecolddevin 106
42 Re: So it's homework - so what? 2501 105
43 How to convince a client to release Perl code to CPAN? szabgab 104
44 Re: Perl Golf Ethics cog 102
45 Spoken Code andyf 102
46 cut vs split (suggestions) sk 101
47 Ensuring forward compatibility DrHyde 101
48 symbolic increment of roman numerals PetaMem 101
49 define.pm - a new pragma to declare global constants MeowChow 101
50 How do YOU do OO in Perl? batkins 100
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