☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 16 hours agoSpecifying file pathslemmy.mlimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]programmer_humor
arrow-up1132arrow-down1imageSpecifying file pathslemmy.ml☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square11fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]programmer_humor
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-210 hours agoIt 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.
It seems not to have much pre-computer history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash#History