☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 22 hours agoSpecifying file pathslemmy.mlimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1139cross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.devlinuxmemes@lemmy.world
arrow-up1139imageSpecifying file pathslemmy.ml☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 22 hours agomessage-square10fedilinkcross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.devlinuxmemes@lemmy.world
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-216 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