Hi,

Just sharing a thought.

I was flicking through this old text book "The Science Of Programming" by
David Gries (1981), while thinking that it was one of the few I remembered
-- it made an impression on me.

Here's a quote: "Wouldn't it be nice to be able to run a program backwards
or, better yet, to derive from one program P a second program P-1 that
computes the inverse of P? That means that running followed by P-1 would be
the same as not running any program at all! Also, if we had the result of
executing P, but had lost the input, we could execute P-1 to determine that
input. "

-Steven
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