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Personally I find unix or whatever OS chose / as the bad choice. / is a commonly used character, at least in the USA as dates. It would completely normal for so
by greggman3 6y ago
Personally I find unix or whatever OS chose / as the bad choice. / is a commonly used character, at least in the USA as dates. It would completely normal for someone to want to name a file "Meeting 12/20/1980.txt" or "Budget Sep/12/1985.doc"
Backslash has no common use I know of outside of computer related stuff like regular expressions and escaping things.
Some of you might also have forgotten but on Mac pre OS-X, at least in standard Mac devtools provided by Apple the separator was colon :
- kps 6y agoBackslash has no non-computer use since it was invented for ASCII to represent ‘∧’ and ‘∨’ as ‘/\’ and ‘\/’.
- michaelcampbell 6y agoMy son used to use \ for dates when he was learning to write; to the point I wondered if he was somewhere above 0 on the dyslexia scale. He's 20 now, and I think has grown out of it.
- jhallenworld 6y agoRM/COS used . as a path separator. I think this is from OS/360. It makes sense to me in that member selection in C also uses '.'. Yeah, from the OS/360 wiki: "The file naming system allows files to be managed as hierarchies with at most 8 character names at each level, e.g. PROJECT.USER.FILENAME. This is tied to the implementation of the system catalog (SYSCTLG) and Control Volumes (CVOLs), which used records with 8 byte keys."