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- cross-posted to:
- programmer_humor@programming.dev
- linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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I still don’t get why the backslash is on keyboards to begin with. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone write a slash backward with a pen. And even if folks do, you could’ve had only one slash anyways. Like, people are going to understand what it means, whether it’s
/or\.I guess, it not being used for much else, does at least make it useful for escaping stuff and for Windows to use as path separator.
It seems not to have much pre-computer history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash#History
[IBM’s Bob Bemer] said the \ was needed so that the ALGOL Boolean operators
∧(logical conjunction) and∨(logical disjunction) could be composed using /\ and \/ respectively.Stop saying that, it has it’s uses /;_;\
Only time I’ve ever used \ in a non computer context was in mathematics as “without” in set theory. As an escape character it’s pretty practical too :)
I think macOS still supports : for directory delimiting, a legacy of Classic Mac OS, though it has been deprecated for a while.
Windows NT supports both / and \.
: as a directory limiter is crazy 😅
(Never been an apple person)
Good to know that NT also supports / though. Somehow it never occured to me to try.
boomers still saying aitch tee tee pee colon forward slash forward slash
tee tee
pee
colon
LOL
At least they’re not saying backslash
Okay, that’s a clever use of that meme.
