☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoSpecifying file pathslemmy.mlexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1184arrow-down11cross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.dev
arrow-up1183arrow-down1external-linkSpecifying file pathslemmy.ml☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square11fedilinkcross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.dev
minus-squaredavel@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10·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