Could be worse of course: Multics (the first system with hierarchical names) used greater-than (>) as separator. Unix/DOS use of slashes gives us the sane pipel

Could be worse of course: Multics (the first system with hierarchical names) used greater-than (>) as separator. Unix/DOS use of slashes gives us the sane pipeline/redirection syntax we all love (see [1] for the Multics redirection syntax). [1] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7030/why-did-unix-use-slash-as-the-directory-separator#answer-7031 https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7030/why-...