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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Unbelievably Obvious Debugging Tip dreadpiratepeter 212
2 Where/When is OO useful? jarich 202
3 My day with Damian Conway petdance 197
4 Programmers are weird demerphq 192
5 Re: Don't go all PerlMonks on me dana 188
6 "freak" and recent threads merlyn 181
7 What is code readability? brian_d_foy 164
8 Mini HowTo: How to port Perl 5 modules to Perl 6 iblech 149
9 How do you organize your Perl applications? Wally Hartshorn 144
10 Re: how to avoid mis-spelling hash keys? pg 138
11 Backtracking through the regex world Abigail-II 134
12 A refactoring trap gmax 133
13 Blatant security problem in certain CPAN module installs toma 130
14 No More Meaningless Benchmarks! chromatic 129
15 Re: I think Perl ruined me as a programmer BrowserUk 127
16 intro to references busunsl 127
17 Why I keep coming back Rex(Wrecks) 124
18 HTML::Tree(Builder) in 6 minutes trs80 123
19 Random Top Nodes demerphq 121
20 Re: Code Samples and Previous Employers dws 120
21 Parsing your script's command line grinder 120
22 (OT) Why SQL Sucks (with a little Perl to fix it) Ovid 118
23 Re: Why does Perlmonks work? cLive ;-) 117
24 Responsibilities of a module author xdg 115
25 On Quality Tanktalus 114
26 Strange memory growth? meetraz 114
27 Re: Tutorial: Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming demerphq 114
28 Order Out Of Chaos Lysander 111
29 Network Programming With Perl jeffa 111
30 my versus our in nested regex Len 110
31 Objectivity and Commercialism talexb 110
32 Offsite Perlmonks Search Engine blakem 110
33 marital status silent11 110
34 Re: (stephen) Hash Tutorial stephen 110
35 Worst thing you ever made with Perl Juerd 109
36 What is "Production Code" ? thezip 108
37 Draft - Writng plugable programs with perl. yosefm 108
38 PERL Should Change Its Name chromatic 108
39 what is EOF and how can I send it? revdiablo 107
40 Algorithm::Treap demerphq 107
41 Turning Off The Aesthetic Sense chip 107
42 Perl in the pole position busunsl 107
43 Connection: Keep-Alive and Perl dws 107
44 Re: The Ethics of Webbots dragonchild 106
45 Re: So it's homework - so what? 2501 105
46 Re: (zdog) Re: •Web Security Ovid 104
47 Re: Perl/CGI Performance ajt 103
48 "Buffer Overflow" rant in Risks Digest dws 103
49 The dreaded if-elsif-else construct (code) deprecated 101
50 ode to strict jlongino 101
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