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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 How do I recursively process files through directories paco 778
2 How to RTFM Masem 329
3 Don't go all PerlMonks on me bobf 281
4 How (Not) To Ask A Question jeffa 280
5 My 2 cents worth Erudil 225
6 I know what I mean. Why don't you? GrandFather 222
7 On Commenting Out 'use strict;' Old_Gray_Bear 220
8 The True Catacombs of Perlmonks wombat 209
9 Somersaulting camel eyepopslikeamosquito 182
10 MOPT-01 - assumptions and spaces mstone 178
11 Compu Kasem (a Cyber-DJ) ichimunki 166
12 Perl Idioms Explained - && and || "Short Circuit" operators davido 159
13 Productivity and Perl Ovid 159
14 Unix shell versus Perl eyepopslikeamosquito 149
15 Mini HowTo: How to port Perl 5 modules to Perl 6 iblech 149
16 Design Patterns Considered Harmful dws 147
17 Resorting to Sorting japhy 139
18 How to write documentation? ajt 136
19 code-sharing at work. geekgrrl 133
20 RE (tilly) 2 (not html): Why I like functional programming tilly 131
21 Request for Comments on Perl::Critic jthalhammer 124
22 How I Created a Catalan-English Dictionary from a Spanish-English Dictionary Using Only String::Approx and Approximately 500 grams of Scots Tablet Willard B. Trophy 123
23 (Not Quite Perl) Running Scripts from Right-Click Context Menu in Windows svsingh 122
24 Funkyness with closures... demerphq 121
25 How to build a Search Engine. TedYoung 120
26 Re: Introduction to Technical Writing/Documentation merlyn 118
27 Thoughts on converting from HTML::Template to Template Toolkit Tanktalus 117
28 I don't use printf enough dreadpiratepeter 117
29 The Perl Diner petdance 117
30 Module::Build users -- please use the "traditional" create_makefile_pl option perrin 116
31 What is %:: used for? SarahM 116
32 Re: poll ideas quest Zoogie 114
33 Re: Score: Perl 1, Ruby 0 brian_d_foy 112
34 Class::Interface -- isa() Considered Harmful chromatic 110
35 Re: Cheap idioms Aristotle 110
36 bash alias suggest-ation khkramer 109
37 Let the experts do their jobs, or, A Lesson Learned, or, the CPAN coulda saved by butt Hero Zzyzzx 109
38 Anti-inside-out-object-ism jdhedden 108
39 Draft - Writng plugable programs with perl. yosefm 108
40 Re: Please Make Up YOur MiNd ! footpad 106
41 Seven habits of highly careful coders mandog 105
42 Favourite modules March 2005 Juerd 104
43 Re: Writing Solid CPAN Modules BrowserUk 103
44 Re: Perl - Is it an OO Language Zaxo 103
45 Regular Expressions: Call for Examples japhy 103
46 The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl. Spidy 101
47 Ensuring forward compatibility DrHyde 101
48 Re: Submitting A Module To CPAN ignatz 101
49 "NoNe SuCh" in perl core?? saintmike 100
50 A New Lesson For My CGI Course Ovid 99
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