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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 How to (ab)use substr Erudil 416
2 The fine art of database programming gmax 293
3 Paradigm Shift - Don't use strict Ovid 268
4 Things you need to know before programming Perl ithreads liz 225
5 On Commenting Out 'use strict;' Old_Gray_Bear 220
6 PMSI - Perl Monks Snippets Index grinder 217
7 There's a level in Hell reserved for ________ dws 184
8 GGGraffiti Blop 171
9 Total Perl Domination FoxtrotUniform 160
10 Automatic Music with Perl larsen 158
11 Why Perl 6 is taking so !@#$ long dragonchild 156
12 Enigma machine. frankus 155
13 Operator Associativity and Eliminating Left-Recursion in Parse::RecDescent ikegami 141
14 TIMTOWTDI and other languages Ovid 137
15 Just use an XSLT stylesheet mirod 132
16 Confession of a Perl Hacker dkubb 132
17 Coming Down From The Pedestal Limbic~Region 131
18 Re: $a++ allowed by $a-- is not ! why? jeffa 130
19 Pentominos Solver Lexicon 130
20 Perl Monopoly Board eyepopslikeamosquito 127
21 The Tao of Programming, Chapter 9 Felonious 127
22 How fast do I type? zdog 127
23 Potential Ternary Operator Bug davorg 125
24 Perl World zshzn 124
25 The Case for Learning Perl newrisedesigns 123
26 Who needs files? Net::FTP::Scalar (code) deprecated 123
27 Keep the kids amused grantm 116
28 Help With Custom War Dialer Dru 116
29 Once AGAIN perl saved my bacon AcidHawk 114
30 $1, etc. are not just strings ysth 113
31 Perlmonks silly hat week! Nevtlathiel 113
32 networking over the loopback dash2 113
33 Re: Should I write your code ? gmax 112
34 Hidden updates ;-( liz 109
35 Testing IS Development locked_user sundialsvc4 107
36 Re: Code Conflation: Considered Harmful? dragonchild 107
37 Parsing Chess Algebra Notation cyocum 107
38 ActiveState EULA : Is my code safe? Anonymous Monk 107
39 How much Perl6 have we got? bronto 105
40 Solving electronics problems with Perl tsee 105
41 TWAIN Issues and Perl newrisedesigns 105
42 Re: Enterprise development: Its ok to say No! Abigail-II 104
43 More Power to your Regex robin 104
44 The quest for pure perl rinceWind 103
45 Re: Sharing database handle Fletch 103
46 Re: The function localtime(time) returns wrong month . How to overcome this problem ?? Corion 102
47 Does Anyone Use Rapid Prototyping? Sherlock 102
48 Re: Variable Names and References Joost 101
49 Something like Tomcat for Perl Improv 101
50 Re: Merlyn's secret uncovered! merlyn 101
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