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		pbhjpbhj on March 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is the DOS path character "\"? Backslash is near L-Ctrl on my keyboard. Forward slash is far closer to backspace. Perhaps a better way would be to think (for L-to-R language users) of the charater toppling "forwards" / or "backwards" \ WRT the text direction.

pasbesoin on March 19, 2012 [–]

Echoing parent, in different words:

English is left-to-right. (And gravity is down.)

Is the slash "leaning forward" or is it "leaning backward".

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