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Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to to, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. |
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poisonbit, thanks for the one-liner! This will go into the next part on text conversion and manipulation.
Btw, there is also Unix utility `rev` that does line reversing!
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