[HN Gopher] The Story of How \ and {} Got into ASCII ___________________________________________________________________ The Story of How \ and {} Got into ASCII Author : hwayne Score : 12 points Date : 2022-02-27 21:45 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (web.archive.org) (TXT) w3m dump (web.archive.org) | 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 \/. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-02-27 23:00 UTC)