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arrow-up1130arrow-down1imageSpecifying file paths☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Programmer HumorEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square8fedilinkcross-posted to: linuxmemes@lemmy.world
minus-squaredavelAlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-26 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