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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 PMSI - Perl Monks Snippets Index grinder 217
2 Where/When is OO useful? jarich 202
3 There's a level in Hell reserved for ________ dws 184
4 AI in Perl - proof of concept Ovid 173
5 Cheap idioms Juerd 165
6 Essential CGI Security Practices cjf 158
7 On Two Years of Silence... tunaboy 153
8 The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part V): Poetry eyepopslikeamosquito 152
9 The Joy of Test Ovid 150
10 Web Hosting for Monks jcwren 150
11 A Hacktress' First Attempt SarahM 136
12 (jeffa) Re: Optimizing existing Perl code (in practise) jeffa 136
13 Maintainable code is the best code dragonchild 135
14 Homework threads aren't necessarily evil dragonchild 132
15 Re: how could i make "them" understand that security IS important ? Joost 129
16 Re: Does 5.8.0 suck? Abigail-II 129
17 Get Involved With Pugs Limbic~Region 128
18 Module advice: when is it too insignificant to release? jplindstrom 128
19 Default subroutine parameters thelenm 127
20 Stubborn as a Saint Ovid 127
21 Code and html separation - always or mostly doable? kiat 126
22 An uncatchable die dws 125
23 Re: I think this will help Novice perl peoples talexb 123
24 Re: Paradigm Shift - Don't use strict blakem 123
25 Overhead of __DATA__? dws 123
26 What CPAN modules are "good reads"? tlm 122
27 RFC CGI.pm refactoring tachyon 121
28 Funkyness with closures... demerphq 121
29 Never use Storable to save XS objects Jouke 119
30 Finding Hamiltonian Paths using the Regexp Engine Abigail-II 119
31 Simplicity vs. Doing It Right dws 119
32 (OT) Who can use freely available material? Ovid 118
33 When -w and use strict aren't enough... RMGir 112
34 Prove/Improve your Self/Skills defyance 111
35 To use a module...or not. BrowserUk 110
36 J2EE is too complicated - why not Perl? beamsack 110
37 Objectivity and Commercialism talexb 110
38 RFC: Implicit Parallelization Pragma hardburn 109
39 Private Methods Meditation theAcolyte 109
40 Breaking the indecipherable cipher, courtesy Charles Babbage. chargrill 107
41 reordering segments to form a polygon dada 107
42 Why is Perl so bad with XML? ajt 107
43 Best practice with polymorphic constructors Ovid 106
44 Recent slowness and outage tye 104
45 Ruminations of an ex-PM monk jcwren 103
46 Genetic Code MeowChow 103
47 Do as I say. Not as I do davorg 102
48 perl.org and DNS: A Hate Story idsfa 101
49 Re: How to burn 100 megabytes in one line and still get the wrong answer Zaxo 100
50 Be grateful for Perl OO dragonchild 100
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