Not sure if you realise but this is not an "Ask HN" post, it's a link to an article, which of course mentions the reason: > They couldn't use the *nix form of

Not sure if you realise but this is not an "Ask HN" post, it's a link to an article, which of course mentions the reason: > They couldn't use the *nix form of path separator of "/", because the "/" was being used for the switch character.