Best Nodes of the Day, Week, Month, and Year

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Best Nodes of The Day

# Node Author Rep
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Best Nodes of The Week

# Node Author Rep
1 Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org erzuuli 24
2 Re: Implicit references? module -> feature -> pragma -> "Perl8" ? Tux 17
3 Re^5: Implicit references? module -> feature -> pragma -> "Perl8" ? hippo 17
4 Re: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org roho 16
5 Re^3: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org Corion 16
6 Re^2: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org Corion 15
7 Re: What is Devel::MOD? Corion 15
8 Re: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org syphilis 15
9 Re^3: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net to redirect to Perlmonks.org hippo 15
10 Re: The cognitive load of generated code choroba 14
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Best Nodes of The Month

# Node Author Rep
1 Moving the site behind a CDN Co-Rion 36
2 Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net to redirect to Perlmonks.org Co-Rion 30
3 Re: Underscore in scalar name not in main package choroba 29
4 Re: Modern Subroutine Signature Requires Perl Version haj 28
5 Re: Modern Subroutine Signature Requires Perl Version Corion 28
6 Re: Modern Subroutine Signature Requires Perl Version dave_the_m 27
7 Re: Underscore in scalar name not in main package dave_the_m 26
8 Re: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net to redirect to Perlmonks.org marto 26
9 Re: Perl Experimental Features Usage and Testing ikegami 25
10 Re: Where is the new perlootut? LanX 25
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Best Nodes of The Year

# Node Author Rep
1 It's been a year davido 39
2 RIP Matt S. Trout LanX 39
3 Re: Perl hashes and non-determinism hippo 37
4 Moving the site behind a CDN Co-Rion 36
5 Selected parts of the site are now static for Anonymous Monks Co-Rion 36
6 Perl v5.42.0 is now available! choroba 36
7 On improving Perlmonks site availability Co-Rion 35
8 Re: Using system sort order Arunbear 35
9 Re: [XS] sv_setpv change in behaviour with perl-5.42.0 and later dave_the_m 34
10 Re: Try::Tiny and -E haukex 34
11 Re: How to set the UTF8 flag? ysth 34
12 Re: how portable is the random number generator? haukex 33
13 Re: How to set the UTF8 flag? NERDVANA 33
14 Re: Is it possible load optional modules from PERL5OPT? jo37 33
15 Re: Speed comparison of foreach vs grep + map Corion 33
16 Re: Reusing a complex regexp in multiple spots, escaping the regexp haukex 32
17 Re: unpack Binary FAIL ikegami 32
18 Re: Purpose of the "caret" character in "qr" regex output jwkrahn 32
19 Re: A Christmas detour: it's the simplest damn things that bite us sometimes choroba 31
20 Re: Can I (with XS) invoke the regex engine without making copies of the buffer? dave_the_m 31
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