[HN Gopher] The Story of How \ and {} Got into ASCII
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       The Story of How \ and {} Got into ASCII
        
       Author : hwayne
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2022-02-27 21:45 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | wrs wrote:
       | I'm happy to see an explanation of why the backslash character
       | exists at all: it's so you can write logical and/or symbols as /\
       | and \/.
        
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