Thanks! Am 27.12.20 um 22:05 schrieb Oleg Grenrus:
Wikipedia [1] has references
Bob Bemer added the \ character to the ASCII character set on September 18, 1961,[3][4] as the result of character frequency studies. In particular, the \ was introduced so that the ALGOL boolean operators ∧ (and) and ∨ (or) could be composed in ASCII as /\ and \/ respectively.[4][5]
- Oleg
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash [3] http://www.thocp.net/biographies/bemer_bob.htm [4] https://web.archive.org/web/20130119163809/http://www.bobbemer.com/BACSLASH.... [5] https://web.archive.org/web/20090604210339/http://home.ccil.org/~remlaps/www...
On 27.12.2020 12.03, Ben Franksen wrote:
Am 23.12.20 um 22:40 schrieb Jon Purdy:
otherwise I like ‘(/\)’ and ‘(\/)’—which, after all, are the very reason the backslash was added to ASCII in the first place. Interesting. Out of curiosity: do you have a reference for this?
Cheers Ben
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