☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months agoSpecifying file pathslemmy.mlexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkSpecifying file pathslemmy.ml☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square9linkfedilink
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-26 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