☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days agoSpecifying file pathslemmy.mlimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1174arrow-down11cross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.devlinuxmemes@lemmy.world
arrow-up1173arrow-down1imageSpecifying file pathslemmy.ml☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square11fedilinkcross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.devlinuxmemes@lemmy.world
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-22 days 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