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I would add the Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming.
Meta request: Is it possible to derive a statistic for a given monk, that shows how many of their original, or first reply posts, contain a (significant) code section?
I think that's only possible when someone starts an ambitious project to download almost all content of perlmonks again and does all kinds of analysis of the data.
Use two parentheses: (Like this: :) )
Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)
Reverse direction of the smiley: (Like this: (: )
Use angle/square brackets instead of parentheses
Use C-style commenting to set the smiley off from the closing parenthesis
Make the smiley a dunce: (:>
I disapprove of emoticons
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