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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Merlyn's secret uncovered! boo_radley 237
2 Unbelievably Obvious Debugging Tip dreadpiratepeter 212
3 Damian praises Perl Monks Erudil 205
4 Secret Perl Operators: the boolean list squash operator, x!! Aristotle 190
5 Common Regex Gotchas chromatic 174
6 Re: find-a-func grinder 169
7 Future of Perl, Future of the Monastery moxliukas 164
8 One Point to Saint hood coreolyn 161
9 Re: Damian Conway's ten rules for when to use OO mrmick 151
10 Mini HowTo: How to port Perl 5 modules to Perl 6 iblech 149
11 Not quite Best Nodes of all time... blakem 145
12 Re: On Commenting Out 'use strict;' (errors) tye 142
13 perl2exe - no more secrets merlyn 141
14 Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL? tilly 139
15 On Coding Standards and Code Reviews eyepopslikeamosquito 136
16 What is truth? (Curiosity corner) robin 136
17 Possible changes to Voting/XP theonetwo 125
18 On Answering Questions merlyn 125
19 An APL trick for the Schwartzian Transform dingus 124
20 Master of your Environment (NT) hsmyers 123
21 Enjoying Perl without doing much coding revdiablo 122
22 Breaking The Rules Limbic~Region 121
23 Use modules or roll your own? kvale 119
24 Did the inefficiency of /i get fixed? Cody Pendant 116
25 Regexes are slow (or, why I advocate String::Index) japhy 112
26 Tk Rubberband Demo crazyinsomniac 112
27 Review: CGI::Prototype dragonchild 111
28 When in Rome... CheeseLord 111
29 [OT] Perl Code Embedded in an Image ktross 110
30 Re: Code Samples and Previous Employers tilly 110
31 Program size and effeciency. murugu 110
32 Wireless Access to Perl Monks Chatterbox diotalevi 109
33 Microsoft is against Perl!? tilly 109
34 Re: Improper slicing japhy 108
35 New simple search tye 108
36 ActiveState EULA : Is my code safe? Anonymous Monk 107
37 Re: Pretty Printing with Data::Dumper Ovid 106
38 How common is mod_perl? jerrygarciuh 106
39 Re: Trojan Horse? (taint mode) dws 106
40 Remote MySQL table comparison gmax 105
41 Flag variables oakbox 105
42 Experimenting with Lvalue Subs Limbic~Region 104
43 (Ovid) Re: Ruminations of an ex-PM monk Ovid 104
44 Re: What is the difference between a Statement and an Expression? Petruchio 104
45 The Law of Inconsistent Assumptions dimar 103
46 How to make Win32::API easy to use tye 103
47 In Search of a Better Mousetrap liverpole 102
48 Indispensible language features FoxtrotUniform 102
49 html template in a perl script archen 100
50 Good Programming is Better George_Sherston 100
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