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I heard Microsoft tried to change the file path separator in Windows, but it received tons of backslash from the community
— Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove) February 28, 2022
Untuk yang tau dan mengerti perbedaan sistem operasi antara Windows dan Unix-like, contohnya GNU/Linux, macOS, BSD dan lainnya, lelucon mengenai kenapa Windows di-commandline menggunakan backslash untuk pemisah direktori daripada forward slash seperti sistem operasi lain.
Most of the utilities included with DOS were written by IBM, and they used the / character as a “switch” character. You can still see this today in the command prompt — running the command dir /w tells the dir command to run with the wide list format option, while running the command dir c:\ tells the dir command to list the contents of drive C:. The different types of slashes here indicate whether you’re specifying an option or a directory path. (On Unix, the – character is used instead of the / character to indicate switches.)
Untuk yang penasaran, ini karena forward slash sudah dipakai untuk kebutuhan lain didalam sistem operasi tersebut, dan drive mapping/direktori menjadi menggunakan forward slash.