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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 How (Not) To Ask A Question jeffa 280
2 Perl cheat sheet Juerd 278
3 Re: 1st Monasterians japhy 248
4 (GUI) Windows Programming FAQ Jouke 236
5 There's a level in Hell reserved for ________ dws 184
6 PM Drinking Game Masem 168
7 I Was a Saint (sung to the tune of "I Will Survive") sauoq 162
8 PM Obfu Felonious 152
9 Parsing credit card track data Ovid 142
10 Not Quite CPAN cmilfo 142
11 Printing the Unprintable Zaxo 138
12 The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part VI): April Fools eyepopslikeamosquito 136
13 Re: A little fun with merlyn Starky 136
14 What is the best way to add tests to existing code? eyepopslikeamosquito 135
15 Dingbats in node titles: What's your opinion dws 131
16 Desparately seeking a bilingual vim/Emacs expert TheDamian 124
17 Enjoying Perl without doing much coding revdiablo 122
18 Database driven web content: live or tape? talexb 122
19 The worst amputation possible: Perl proper as Open Source software princepawn 122
20 Re: How to RTFM Chmrr 122
21 Scraping HTML: orthodoxy and reality grinder 121
22 More Fun with Zero! CheeseLord 119
23 Re: Perl falls victim to shifting trends perrin 117
24 RE: Why I like functional programming dchetlin 117
25 What Worked In My 1st Year Of Perl: LOL luis.roca 116
26 Software design -- The confussion of buzzwords zzspectrez 115
27 Never lock $0 inside of a BEGIN block demerphq 115
28 Applying regexes to streams: Perl enhancement idea tye 115
29 Best practices, revisited ELISHEVA 113
30 using CGI, DBI and HTML::Template (a mini tutorial with example code) gav^ 113
31 A tutorial for Perl to teach Beginners theroninwins 112
32 Re: Number 1 mistake to not avoid during an interview tachyon 112
33 Tweaks Made to FullPage Chat footpad 112
34 Need a test for deep equality rinceWind 112
35 Benchmark, -s versus schwartzian Darby 111
36 Re: The Deceiver japhy 111
37 PINE, Perl, pipes, and attachments brian_d_foy 110
38 P5EE ... get involved! rob_au 110
39 Mega XSLT Batch job - best approach? ajt 110
40 Re: Efficiency and overhead of subs chromatic 109
41 Why I choose Perl merlyn 108
42 Perl High School Graduation hsweet 108
43 Why I learn a language. blackstarr 107
44 Perl and open source BioGeek 105
45 perl OO - to use or not to use kiat 105
46 Quirky regex bug japhy 105
47 Block Stacker - A Block Stacking Game for Perl William G. Davis 101
48 add to (Personal Nodelet|Scratchpad) links zigdon 100
49 A flock()alypse now ferrency 100
50 Writing a web message board from scratch tomazos 100
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