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And the article points out it's NOT a carry-over from CP/M.
by glandium 2y ago
And the article points out it's NOT a carry-over from CP/M.
- dirkt 2y agoAnd I am not sure if their argument holds water. CP/M is clearly influenced by DEC usage [1], and various DEC OS and tools had slashes for tool options as a standard. Those then got carried over to CP/M (e.g. PIP), so that was the standard way to define options everyone CP/M used would have known. It's really really hard to imagine the usage for slashes as arguments was not a carry over. And for anyone old enough to actually remember the transition from CP/M to MS-DOS (like me), it felt very natural. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
- fanf2 2y agoAs the article explains, CP/M PIP uses [ ] for options, not /