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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Why I like functional programming tilly 307
2 POD in 5 minutes Juerd 253
3 CGI::Simple vs CGI.pm - Is twice as fast good enough? tachyon 205
4 I just want to siiiing! Petruchio 187
5 Why I hate File::Find and how I (hope I) fixed it mirod 160
6 The Null Mull (or, when OO needs more O) brian_d_foy 157
7 New user scratch pad. vroom 150
8 Use strict warnings and diagnostics or die tachyon 144
9 Random Sierpinski Dust o0lit3 136
10 (OT) Finding Technology Solutions Ovid 132
11 Thinking in perl K_M_McMahon 131
12 Node removal vs edit virtualsue 131
13 A guide to coding Perl rir 130
14 Perl and Prolog and Continuations... oh my! adrianh 129
15 Daft text adventure project Tiefling 126
16 Re: It's a problem of motivation, Bob Juerd 123
17 Using Look-ahead and Look-behind Roy Johnson 120
18 Learning to *really* love references astaines 117
19 Perl aesthetics: the good, the bad, the ugly. vladb 115
20 Rethinking Tutorials gmax 114
21 How many words does it take? Limbic~Region 113
22 When test-driven development just won't do Ovid 113
23 PLJava - Perl embeded into Java (calling Perl from Java) - 1sr release - call for tests and review, please. gmpassos 113
24 How aggressively does Perl clean up when you exit()? dave_aiello 113
25 A tutorial for Perl to teach Beginners theroninwins 112
26 Convincing co-workers to learn Perl Limbic~Region 111
27 Re: How much of Perl can be removed? Joost 110
28 Offsite Perlmonks Search Engine blakem 110
29 Re: Strip HTML tags again Ovid 110
30 Helping Beginners Ovid 110
31 robotic laser welder ginseng 110
32 Discipline larsen 110
33 Re: Why Perl 6 is taking so !@#$ long tilly 108
34 strict.pm tye 107
35 The Perldoc Perlfunc Quiz abcde 106
36 Initiative or otherwise? BrowserUk 106
37 Stepping up from XML::Simple to XML::LibXML grantm 105
38 Re: "Vanity Tagging" on CPAN? borisz 105
39 Compiling Perl with correct values in @INC higle 105
40 On being a community merlyn 104
41 Re: How to check if a website is up? biosysadmin 103
42 Re: Scalars, Lists, and Arrays Dominus 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 No more anonymous categorized answers tye 102
46 'Restricted' data, an additional security mechanism for Perl. pjf 102
47 detecting the language of a word? domm 102
48 No Comment awkmonk 101
49 GUI japh Daruma 100
50 Would you use SQLite? Matts 100
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