> If you find yourself trying Perl before Ruby, however, seek
> psychiatric help immediately :)

Sometimes you'll find a machine that doesn't have ruby installed.

Besides, it's not that bad.  Really I promise it won't hurt a bit.

    $ perl -ne 'push @a, $_; END { print reverse @a }'

It's not any worse than the awk (but not a pretty as the ruby).  Like
it was said before, use the tools you have:

    $ tac test.rb



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Lou