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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 'our' is not 'my' Ovid 323
2 The fine art of database programming gmax 293
3 Camel Time hiseldl 202
4 Your Favorite Heroic Perl Story friedo 194
5 How to make a CPAN Module Distribution tachyon 186
6 MOPT-01 - assumptions and spaces mstone 178
7 Perl Idioms Explained - @ary = $str =~ m/(stuff)/g tachyon 174
8 Object Oriented? jryan 172
9 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire grinder 170
10 The early history of Perlmonks tilly 167
11 Welcome to the Monastery! Make yourself at home. newrisedesigns 152
12 "Baby" Perl versus "Bad" Perl Ovid 151
13 "Tired of FUD" Followup: Where the Jobs Are renodino 147
14 RE: How do I recursively process files through directories vroom 146
15 Yet Another Perl Conference Erudil 144
16 Re: My interpersonal communication protocol/style is the most like... hardburn 137
17 TMTOWTDI... and most of them are wrong tlm 136
18 How to measure Perl skills? optimist 136
19 RFC: Tutorial on Testing tmoertel 134
20 make me smile Len 131
21 Fastest Rising Monks blakem 131
22 On being a browser rkg 130
23 From Initiate to Monk Blue 130
24 A SpamAssassin-Enabled POP3 Proxy McD 129
25 Use more threads. BrowserUk 126
26 Five Ways to Reverse a String of Words (C#, Perl 5, Perl 6, Ruby, Haskell) eyepopslikeamosquito 124
27 I go there for the code :-) zentara 123
28 Programming with Multiple Personalities stephen 121
29 Learning to *really* love references astaines 117
30 Re: Do my homework for me! FoxtrotUniform 116
31 $1, etc. are not just strings ysth 113
32 Need a test for deep equality rinceWind 112
33 Re: poll ideas quest Dominus 110
34 Re: Gargantuan memory consumption issues Corion 109
35 Monk DNA Lysander 109
36 Re-inventing the wheel is a 'Good Thing' Felonious 109
37 Re: uc() every other letter echo 109
38 Let's Make It Happen! nysus 109
39 Re: Improper slicing japhy 108
40 Do you really want to use an array there? deprecated 108
41 On timely destruction? Elian 107
42 Re: Re: Future of Perl, Future of the Monastery theorbtwo 107
43 Unit Testing Generated HTML dws 107
44 Re: Would you work at a porn company? grinder 105
45 •Re: Re: Newbies, trying to help, and where to draw the line? merlyn 104
46 More Power to your Regex robin 104
47 To module or not? bradcathey 102
48 Re: Coding to a deadline - why it is just like hunting bears. gmax 102
49 GUI japh Daruma 100
50 Re: Perl best practices fanatism brian_d_foy 99
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