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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Before asking a database related question ... gmax 228
2 On Parsing Perl merlyn 206
3 Perl Monks += TMTOWTDI hacker 187
4 Remember, before you consider, please, Please, PLEASE: kudra 181
5 Tales from writing a RPN evaluator in Perl 5, Perl 6 and Haskell eyepopslikeamosquito 173
6 Two Different Languages: Two Similar Books (PBP and CCS) eyepopslikeamosquito 162
7 How I learned Perl brian_d_foy 156
8 Composing effective node titles davido 155
9 When the Best Solution Isn't sauoq 155
10 Web Hosting for Monks - Gone Live! jcwren 139
11 Displaying/buffering huge text files spurperl 138
12 Coroutines in Perl leriksen 136
13 A Day In The Life ar0n 134
14 Programming Perl as a Job: 8 hours a day is too much for me princepawn 133
15 Ogden Nash, 1902-1971 VSarkiss 131
16 Teaching Children How to Program Sandy 129
17 Code Conflation: Considered Harmful? rvosa 128
18 Goofy leaping ninja stickmen jonadab 127
19 Re: NO PERL 6 Ovid 122
20 Popularity of Perl vs. availability of Perl developers aufflick 120
21 On Golf Dominus 120
22 (jeffa) Re: A better mod (%) operator? jeffa 119
23 Never lock $0 inside of a BEGIN block demerphq 115
24 5:10: Why is this slower than 5.8.8? jk2addict 111
25 Testing for randomness DrHyde 111
26 Program size and effeciency. murugu 110
27 Class::Interface -- isa() Considered Harmful chromatic 110
28 Help authors to help themselves; don't consider the small stuff tye 109
29 Re: Front Paging Profanity dws 109
30 Microsoft is against Perl!? tilly 109
31 Node 541 Corion 109
32 Markup summary when posting/replying? dws 108
33 Become a CPAN Tester with CPAN::Reporter xdg 107
34 Reciprocating to the perl community stonecolddevin 106
35 Re: Perl - Is it an OO Language BrowserUk 106
36 Re: Optimizing existing Perl code (in practise) atcroft 106
37 Spatial Japh liverpole 105
38 [Slightly OT]: Is certification worth it? rozallin 104
39 (jeffa) Re: Perl vs. Python: Looking at the Code jeffa 104
40 Re: How to check if a website is up? biosysadmin 103
41 Re: Interesting line which I read from Monk's snippets Tanktalus 102
42 'Restricted' data, an additional security mechanism for Perl. pjf 102
43 Re: Re: Possible first post syndrome remedy ignatz 102
44 Are debugging skills atrophying? dws 102
45 The First Ten Perl Monks eyepopslikeamosquito 101
46 Help module authors by testing them on older versions of perl mirod 101
47 Something like Tomcat for Perl Improv 101
48 Nifty New Feature jcwren 101
49 Would you use SQLite? Matts 100
50 Framing merlyn stefp 100
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