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Computer related pet peeves
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this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025
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That's a good thing IMO. The benefits of using special characters in this specific case are slim, but the repercussions for every single programming language that ever touches file or folder names (i.e. basically all of them) are pretty big.
Like seriously, I'd wager that entire companies might crawl to a stop because Bernice in accounting put a "/" into some important excel file name.