++ to gmax for me, too.

I agree with you, as I have the feeling that my best nodes are not on my top ten, too. I tried to analyze the phenomenon and wrote a meditation that, in my mind, could work as a tutorial for newbie monks. That was one of my more controversal nodes, on which I had a lot of votes, about an half were --; and it never reached meditations (it was moved to discussions). Aristotle, too, wrote a node on the meaning of XP and pointed me to it.

From time to time monks come back and discuss about XP: XP is good, XP is bad, XP makes monks hungry, XP makes monks angry... my feeling is that XP makes the site alive. Why? Because it is good and bad, makes people hungry and angry and so on ;-)

Ciao!
--bronto

The very nature of Perl to be like natural language--inconsistant and full of dwim and special cases--makes it impossible to know it all without simply memorizing the documentation (which is not complete or totally correct anyway).
--John M. Dlugosz