IIRC, Perl was created because awk just couldn't do what Larry wanted it to, and he didn't want to write something in C because he knew, sooner or later, he'd run into another problem awk couldn't handle.

"Larry's first thought was, 'Let's use awk.' Unfortunately, the awk of that day couldn't handle opening and closing of multiple files based on information in the files. Larry didn't want to have to code a special-purpose tool. As a result, a new language was born."
--"Perl Culture", Camel III, p646

=cut
--Brent Dax

@HPAJ=split("", "rekcaH lreP rentonA tsuJ");
print reverse @HPAJ;  #sucky but who cares?
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