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@cm0002@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 5 months ago

Specifying file paths

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  • Diplomjodler
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    72•5 months ago

    Linux uses forward slash. Windows uses backslash. Because some dude 45 years ago wanted to make it look different from UNIX.

    • @HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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      17•5 months ago

      I understand pre-OS X Macintoshes used colons.

      • @PNW_Doug@lemmy.world
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        21•5 months ago

        They did! And I weirdly kind of miss them for the entirely non-logical reason that they looked elegant.

        Don’t get me wrong, I adapted in about 3 seconds when I made the switch to Mac OS X 25 years ago, but I irrationally kinda miss them just a tiny bit.

        • @saplyng@lemmy.world
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          9•5 months ago

          Code in Rust and you can get double colons for your library path imports!

      • @azi@mander.xyz
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        5 months ago

        RISC OS uses periods and doesn’t have file extensions

    • @Valmond@lemmy.world
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      7•5 months ago

      Was that bill gates just to make one of the first incompatibilities in a long long run?

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        • @Valmond@lemmy.world
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          3•5 months ago

          Thanks for the info, didn’t know that (I did know they bought DOS)!

          • @dan@upvote.au
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            5•5 months ago

            This is a great video about the launch of Windows 95, that covers the history of DOS at the beginning: https://youtu.be/0Ol8ZSE-PEk. Worth watching if you’re interested in the history.

            • @Valmond@lemmy.world
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              Thanks!

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