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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 My coding guidelines Abigail-II 302
2 I know what I mean. Why don't you? GrandFather 222
3 Perl Idioms Explained - my $string = do { local $/; <FILEHANDLE> }; jeffa 193
4 Rain - Musical Composition written with Perl jake 186
5 An informal introduction to O(N) notation dws 181
6 My number 1 tip for developers. BrowserUk 154
7 Chat improvements tye 151
8 Questions wanted for Pugs/Perl6 audreyt 140
9 Parsing with Perl 6 jryan 140
10 (jeffa) Re: Can a non-programmer teach Perl? jeffa 139
11 How Scheme and Perl Became Friends beppu 137
12 How to measure Perl skills? optimist 136
13 Perl Best Practices book: is this one a best practice or a dodgy practice? eyepopslikeamosquito 134
14 Google - tastic! andye 132
15 Perl documentation documentation brian_d_foy 131
16 What is this doing, and why is this a good method of doing it? japhy 126
17 How to answer "Perl is not secure" objections? radiantmatrix 125
18 Potential Ternary Operator Bug davorg 125
19 The Model View Controller pattern in web applications Joost 123
20 (tye)Re: References quick reference tye 123
21 Re: Preventing Duplicate Form Submissions tadman 115
22 The other YAPC::Europe T-shirt BooK 115
23 (jeffa) Re: Can you teach a new dog an old trick? jeffa 112
24 How to best pass on the context / wantarray? Corion 111
25 Convincing co-workers to learn Perl Limbic~Region 111
26 Prove/Improve your Self/Skills defyance 111
27 Automatic module installation Juerd 111
28 Micro Mocking: using local to help test subs adrianh 110
29 stopping my spamming Anonymous Monk 110
30 Re: Gargantuan memory consumption issues Corion 109
31 perlmonk.org II: Son of Perlmonk Petruchio 109
32 Overloading '=' dchetlin 109
33 AI::Perlog -- Simple implementation Ovid 108
34 Using HTML::Template Ovid 108
35 Acronyms seen in the Monastery Theo 107
36 Multi-Threaded Elevator Simulator samtregar 106
37 Get the best from monastery artist 106
38 Why Is $& Bad? japhy 106
39 Remote MySQL table comparison gmax 105
40 Solving Meta Sentences YuckFoo 105
41 Bare PerlMonks, great for small devices tye 104
42 Is Usenet Still Worth It? CrunchyRoll 103
43 Re: Writing Solid CPAN Modules BrowserUk 103
44 Re (tilly) 1: CipherTextI tilly 103
45 For CIS, Math is good, but Philo is better. dragonchild 102
46 More PM Stats Limbic~Region 101
47 (Almost) Purely Functional JAPH Schemer 101
48 What would you put on a Perl mug? jarich 100
49 Cellular Automata :: Langton's Ant Elgon 100
50 One-Line Quine beretboy 100
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