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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Restoring deleted files under Linux chipmunk 203
2 Re: Professional Employees and Works for Hire cjf 202
3 My day with Damian Conway petdance 197
4 All your Votebots are belong to us vroom 191
5 Just Another Larry benn 164
6 Natural Language Index Stemming rob_au 156
7 Open Has a New Trick Zaxo 144
8 How to write documentation? ajt 136
9 Choose the most powerful language tilly 136
10 A Vision for Easy Web Application Deployment for Perl markjugg 131
11 Verisign Hijack all possible .com .net domains and destroy Email::Valid, Net::DNS, gethostbyname() etc tachyon 129
12 Neglected tutorials? dbwiz 129
13 The PerlMonks algorithm gmax 129
14 Perlmonks Related Scripts epoptai 126
15 Desparately seeking a bilingual vim/Emacs expert TheDamian 124
16 What CPAN modules are "good reads"? tlm 122
17 My first stab at OO perl... Theseus 122
18 What? I patched Perl? japhy 122
19 Breaking The Rules Limbic~Region 121
20 Re: Protecting our work fizbin 120
21 Re: My coding guidelines mojotoad 119
22 More Fun with Zero! CheeseLord 119
23 Duff's Device davido 115
24 How to apply patches to PM code tye 115
25 Detect Stop Button hakkr 115
26 Regexes are slow (or, why I advocate String::Index) japhy 112
27 (jeffa) Re: Can you teach a new dog an old trick? jeffa 112
28 Testing for randomness DrHyde 111
29 <strike>XSL/XML/Perl as a development process</strike> chunlou 111
30 Insensitive Scoundrel bluto 111
31 Re: How much of Perl can be removed? Joost 110
32 Re: •web site design, or lack thereof Hero Zzyzzx 110
33 Chip (on the shoulder) Monks Ovid 110
34 Re: Improper slicing japhy 108
35 So sue me tlm 107
36 strict.pm tye 107
37 Funniest Nodes of 2004 silent11 106
38 How common is mod_perl? jerrygarciuh 106
39 GetOpt::Long usage style demerphq 105
40 Re: stopping my spamming Abigail-II 105
41 Coding in smileys biga 104
42 RFC: Subscription to nodes dragonchild 104
43 How do Monks programatically construct SQL selects Cody Pendant 104
44 PM News: Vote fary missing, and other stories... theorbtwo 104
45 perl performance vs egrep dba 103
46 What's the story behind the camel? borgia 103
47 Word Seek Slipstream 102
48 detecting the language of a word? domm 102
49 Apologies to Joyce Kilmer clintp 101
50 Ancient Philosophy And Programming Languages cyocum 100
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