Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups

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From: Michael Chapman
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 13:12

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DBasics Software Company wrote:
[....]
> 
> Why does UNIX use forward slashes and DOS uses backslashes
> in their addressing?  I suppose it so us programmers can
> 
[...]
> 
> (3)  The guy who came up with the forward slash addressing in UNIX is
> a disgruntled DOS system developer that got fired without severance
> pay.

Can't be.

UNIX was around before DOS.
The first version ran in 1969-70 on PDP7 and PDP9 computers.
Maybe it was the otherway around?

Incidentally there are a lot of keyboards where '\' is a real
pain to type whereas '/' is no problem.

NB. Followups radically cut to just comp.lang.misc.

-- 
Mike Chapman, Munich                                       
   Some programming languages manage to absorb change,     
   but withstand progress.                                 
       -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982

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