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Why does windows use backslashes for file paths?

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2016-07-21 09:44:05 Post No. 55680260
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Anonymous 2016-07-21 09:44:05 Post No. 55680260 [Report]
Why does windows use backslashes for file paths?
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Anonymous 2016-07-21 09:45:34 Post No.55680268
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Anonymous 2016-07-21 09:45:34 Post No.55680268 [Report]
>>55680260
Because that's the way CP/M did it and MS-DOS ripped off CP/M
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Anonymous 2016-07-21 09:51:15 Post No.55680333
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Anonymous 2016-07-21 09:51:15 Post No.55680333 [Report]
>>55680260
protip: it doesn't actually matter if you use back or forward slashes on wongdongs
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Anonymous 2016-07-21 10:46:21 Post No.55680887
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Anonymous 2016-07-21 10:46:21 Post No.55680887 [Report]
>>55680333
it matters if you program in c,c++,java,c#
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Anonymous 2016-07-21 11:14:02 Post No.55681199
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Anonymous 2016-07-21 11:14:02 Post No.55681199 [Report]
>>55680260
Path Separator doesn't matter, and shouldn't matter, at all. You should be using the system defined path separator, since anyone can change it if they know how (not that anyone would).
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Anonymous 2016-07-21 11:15:12 Post No.55681223
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Anonymous 2016-07-21 11:15:12 Post No.55681223 [Report]
>>55680260
TITS ARE NICE, FACE NOT SO MUCH
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Ruby (ID: !Sempai.oWA) 2016-07-21 11:28:12 Post No.55681382
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Ruby (ID: !Sempai.oWA) 2016-07-21 11:28:12 Post No.55681382 [Report]
>>55680887

If you program in any of those languages, just use forward slashes for everything.
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