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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 The fine art of database programming gmax 293
2 Finite Automata Question Generator suaveant 209
3 Magic 8 Ball suaveant 207
4 Node Tension mojotoad 184
5 XML for databases?!?! Is it just me or is the rest of the world nutz? S_Shrum 165
6 I Was a Saint (sung to the tune of "I Will Survive") sauoq 162
7 Artificial Intelligence Programming in Perl cjf 162
8 Google Earth Monks McDarren 161
9 The Perl Diamond BronzeWing 161
10 Server Status/ Thank you Pair.com vroom 153
11 Return of the Second Camel dthacker 152
12 That screwdriver looks like a hammer... tilly 144
13 Use strict warnings and diagnostics or die tachyon 144
14 Yet Another Perl Conference Erudil 144
15 "But I'm never going to..." water 133
16 sharky.pl xtype 133
17 Coming Down From The Pedestal Limbic~Region 131
18 History now influences voting tye 130
19 No More Meaningless Benchmarks! chromatic 129
20 Perl World zshzn 124
21 I go there for the code :-) zentara 123
22 Re: C vs perl Ovid 122
23 Re: Don't go all PerlMonks on me toma 121
24 pMusic - an MP3 player for disabled people Jouke 117
25 hash collision DOS kschwab 117
26 Re: perl OO - to use or not to use adrianh 116
27 Re: Tutorial: Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming demerphq 114
28 Comparison between Perl and Ksh bizzach 114
29 Perldocs and peer reviews g0n 113
30 Perl, Chess, Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics hsmyers 113
31 Chip (on the shoulder) Monks Ovid 110
32 Re: What if it were you instead of Linus? PodMaster 108
33 Spiraling Death: not a boustrophedon. Dog and Pony 108
34 Thoughts on designing a file format. demerphq 107
35 How not to code brian_d_foy 107
36 Re: Code Conflation: Considered Harmful? dragonchild 107
37 reordering segments to form a polygon dada 107
38 Homage BrowserUk 107
39 Re: Second rate programmers and my confession footpad 107
40 Translation of the Perlmonks levels ... ZlR 106
41 Re: Perl - Is it an OO Language BrowserUk 106
42 On "fixing" Perl core modules "in place" tlm 105
43 Parallel maintenance on many projects, part I brian_d_foy 105
44 •Re: Re: Password hacker killer merlyn 105
45 Flag variables oakbox 105
46 Overload abuse or is it just me? salvix 104
47 Re: what's faster than .= hv 104
48 Adult learning problem jepri 104
49 perl performance vs egrep dba 103
50 (Almost) Purely Functional JAPH Schemer 101
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