☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoSpecifying file pathslemmy.mlimagemessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down11cross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.dev
arrow-up1132arrow-down1imageSpecifying file pathslemmy.ml☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square8linkfedilinkcross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.dev
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-23 months 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