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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Fish dinner suaveant 330
2 Fun With Reserved Keywords blokhead 247
3 My 2 cents worth Erudil 225
4 Five Common Misconceptions While Learning Perl m.att 187
5 Perl & Math: A Quick Reference chunlou 179
6 Ceasefire djantzen 169
7 fork-bomb! Xanatax 161
8 Re: Unusual Closure Behaviour Abigail 161
9 Re (tilly) 1: References quick reference tilly 153
10 Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and Web Services cjf 151
11 Status and usefulness of ithreads in 5.8.0 BazB 143
12 Operator Associativity and Eliminating Left-Recursion in Parse::RecDescent ikegami 141
13 A Perl Success Story TedYoung 139
14 Perl Desktop Applications chromatic 132
15 On being a browser rkg 130
16 The cost of unchecked best practices moritz 129
17 •Re: Perl - Is it an OO Language merlyn 126
18 What are the opportunities with Parrot? tjh 118
19 Why is goto &sub slow? Ovid 116
20 Benchmark.pm: Does subroutine testing order bias results? jkeenan1 114
21 Run your own perlmonks! theorbtwo 114
22 Undocumented variable? dpmott 114
23 Re: Really slick Charts and Graphs kvale 113
24 How many triangles does your perl script "see"? Skeeve 112
25 FMTYEWTK about split // ysth 112
26 One Monasterian's Prodigal Journey bradcathey 110
27 Apache::CVS::HTML + Perl::Tidy jeffa 110
28 Objectivity and Commercialism talexb 110
29 Combinatorics ezekiel 110
30 Starting a Large Project defyance 110
31 Unchained Melody Roy Johnson 109
32 Re: uc() every other letter echo 109
33 Learning how to program (for youngsters of any age) pmas 109
34 Wanted, more simple tutorials on testing punkish 108
35 Re: Personal library with CPAN Zaxo 108
36 PM Development Fund vroom 108
37 On appropriate boilerplate merlyn 108
38 ActiveState EULA : Is my code safe? Anonymous Monk 107
39 Re: Professional Employees and Works for Hire Juerd 106
40 Who What Where When! liz 105
41 not 'another victim of precedence' ? 'It is true' : 'the code is false' bobf 104
42 CGI::Application rob_au 104
43 Re: Interesting line which I read from Monk's snippets Tanktalus 102
44 No more anonymous categorized answers tye 102
45 Do as I say. Not as I do davorg 102
46 use AnyGUI jonadab 101
47 Miscellaneous.pm? tlm 100
48 Vocal Japh liverpole 100
49 better union of sets algorithm? perrin 100
50 Multi tiered web applications in Perl pernod 100
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