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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Five Common Misconceptions While Learning Perl m.att 187
2 Re: find-a-func grinder 169
3 Troubleshooting Perl CGI scripts brian_d_foy 165
4 (tye)Re: A question of style tye 155
5 (jcwren) Re: Posting "Other Users" on potential personality voters jcwren 148
6 Migrating a 1NF table to multiple 2NF tables jeffa 144
7 OT: Why Hackers dont do well in Corporate World mkirank 143
8 Re: Second rate programmers and my confession George_Sherston 143
9 Trojan Perl Distributions barbie 141
10 perl2exe - no more secrets merlyn 141
11 (jeffa) Re: Can a non-programmer teach Perl? jeffa 139
12 Plug-in architectures Masem 135
13 Why can't life be more like Perl? gryphon 131
14 web-based application or desktop application? pg 129
15 Possible changes to Voting/XP theonetwo 125
16 Re: Propose. Vortacist 123
17 Re: XML for databases?!?! Is it just me or is the rest of the world nutz? mirod 121
18 RFC CGI.pm refactoring tachyon 121
19 Useless Statistics chunlou 120
20 The Great Tao of Perl vilk 119
21 Mandatory indenting Juerd 118
22 Re: Twice the pleasure of sorting a hash broquaint 116
23 Re: perl OO - to use or not to use adrianh 116
24 When JAPH retires (v 2.0) Elliott 116
25 Pedagogy: pointers or plaintext posts Ovid 114
26 Interesting WTDI leriksen 113
27 Confessional, Revisited kvale 112
28 Tick-tock 2, a self-modifying quine rob_au 112
29 The SSSCA, Microsoft's answer to anti-trust? tilly 112
30 Re: Perl best practices fanatism merlyn 111
31 Re: Perl Code Runs Extremely Slow samtregar 110
32 robotic laser welder ginseng 110
33 Greediness, or Paranoia? defyance 109
34 Draft - Writng plugable programs with perl. yosefm 108
35 Perl monkish sites Boots111 108
36 Perl in the pole position busunsl 107
37 Perl/Tk exemplars? dws 107
38 Re: Paradigm Shift - Don't use strict chip 107
39 Funniest Nodes of 2004 silent11 106
40 Challenge - Creative Way To Detect Alpha Characters Limbic~Region 106
41 japhy has met his match japhy 106
42 •Re: Re: Password hacker killer merlyn 105
43 [Slightly OT]: Is certification worth it? rozallin 104
44 Adult learning problem jepri 104
45 Reducing Memory Usage PerlingTheUK 103
46 Re: for loop localisation bug? cees 103
47 The costs of packages BrowserUk 102
48 Why learn another language? AcidHawk 102
49 Spiro Japh 2 liverpole 101
50 Newbies and votes kiat 100
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