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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 What if it were you instead of Linus? grantm 242
2 A Guide to Installing Modules tachyon 213
3 /msg tye I'm ignoring you tye 180
4 Re: find-a-func grinder 169
5 Artificial Intelligence Programming in Perl cjf 162
6 Suggestions for working with poor code Ovid 148
7 Re: what's faster than .= MarkM 147
8 Not quite Best Nodes of all time... blakem 145
9 Use strict warnings and diagnostics or die tachyon 144
10 Great Perl Literature petdance 143
11 Virtues of Community footpad 142
12 LWP::Simple: a little more complicated than it sounds Zed_Lopez 138
13 How Scheme and Perl Became Friends beppu 137
14 Does fatalsToBrowser give too much information to a cracker? rinceWind 136
15 1 while unlink 'foo' rinceWind 135
16 Why Perl Monks is a place to be reverred perllove 131
17 Database driven web content: live or tape? talexb 122
18 Useless Statistics chunlou 120
19 OO concepts and relational databases dragonchild 118
20 Protecting our work bradcathey 116
21 Did the inefficiency of /i get fixed? Cody Pendant 116
22 Security Is Hard Not Easy - Re: •web site design, or lack thereof metadoktor 116
23 Responsibilities of a module author xdg 115
24 Applying regexes to streams: Perl enhancement idea tye 115
25 Top 10 reasons to start using ack petdance 114
26 Making Sudoku Puzzles Using PDF::API2 brian_d_foy 114
27 Undocumented variable? dpmott 114
28 No Benchmark is better than a bad Benchmark Abigail-II 114
29 Am I a power-mad Friar? RMGir 114
30 I refuse to explain this Dominus 113
31 Tk Rubberband Demo crazyinsomniac 112
32 Slashdot over the phone beretboy 112
33 J2EE is too complicated - why not Perl? beamsack 110
34 Perl Best Practices for naming variables creamygoodness 109
35 Newlines: reading files that were created on other platforms bobf 109
36 future warnings ysth 109
37 Re: Efficiency and overhead of subs chromatic 109
38 A knotty problem. BrowserUk 108
39 Re: perl2exe - no more secrets gmax 108
40 Re: Detect Stop Button sevensven 108
41 reordering segments to form a polygon dada 107
42 Getting Fed Up with ActiveState Ovid 106
43 Re: Magic suaveant 106
44 Perl 6 release date Juerd 105
45 Re: XML for databases?!?! Is it just me or is the rest of the world nutz? mojotoad 105
46 More ways to download code... demerphq 104
47 Feature announcement: XP Quips theorbtwo 104
48 This is why I use Perl pg 102
49 Re: Is perl scalable? (yes) Ovid 102
50 the -x command line parameter Shenpen 100
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