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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 'our' is not 'my' Ovid 323
2 There can be only one! Erudil 321
3 Paradigm Shift - Don't use strict Ovid 268
4 Magic 8 Ball suaveant 207
5 Cool code for your home node BigLug 184
6 WARNING merlyn wrote BAD CODE Ovid 175
7 How I learned Perl brian_d_foy 156
8 Composing effective node titles davido 155
9 Monk Levels MZSanford 154
10 Confessional chromatic 149
11 Re: How can I visualize my complex data structure? planetscape 141
12 A Perl Success Story TedYoung 139
13 Can you create *real* global variables? broquaint 133
14 OT: Job Advice abaxaba 132
15 A brief survey of the DBI usability layer modules on the CPAN Aristotle 131
16 Short routines matter more in OO? tilly 131
17 Idiomatic optimizations Juerd 129
18 Default subroutine parameters thelenm 127
19 Where to start Learning Perl at The Monastary Louis_Wu 125
20 Thanks for a year of enlightenment bradcathey 124
21 Clunky parsing problem, looking for simple solution clintp 124
22 Popularity of Perl vs. availability of Perl developers aufflick 120
23 Re: A message for Anonymous Monk koolgirl 119
24 Never lock $0 inside of a BEGIN block demerphq 115
25 Yet another regex bug. japhy 115
26 Bootstrapping Techies (or how to hire without technical knowledge) pjf 115
27 Re: poll ideas quest Zoogie 114
28 When in Rome... CheeseLord 111
29 And now write 100 times: "I'll automate our test-environment" Tomte 108
30 A knotty problem. BrowserUk 108
31 plXPCOM - A Call to Arms dbp 108
32 On appropriate boilerplate merlyn 108
33 Spiraling Death: not a boustrophedon. Dog and Pony 108
34 Should a Socratic Dialogue be attempted? apl 107
35 (jcwren) Re: How to compare 2 wav files. jcwren 107
36 Re: The One True Style of indentation: JayBonci 107
37 Optimizing Output Dogma 106
38 Re: How to RTFM lachoy 106
39 Flag variables oakbox 105
40 interlink search engine Juerd 105
41 Writing general code: real world example - and doubts! polettix 104
42 Reducing Memory Usage PerlingTheUK 103
43 Recommended journal article on the use of Perl in statistics lin0 102
44 Re: The function localtime(time) returns wrong month . How to overcome this problem ?? Corion 102
45 Reinventing the spaceship nothingmuch 102
46 Beep.pm giulienk 101
47 Re: recurring perl bug: capital Z's. Fletch 101
48 Miscellaneous.pm? tlm 100
49 Mystery PerlMonks Theater stephen 100
50 Start smoking (Perl) kudra 100
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