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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It seems not to have much pre-computer history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash#History

[IBM’s Bob Bemer] said the \ was needed so that the ALGOL Boolean operators ∧ (logical conjunction) and ∨ (logical disjunction) could be composed using /\ and \/ respectively.

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