[Xitami] CGI

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Thank you -- I like that definition best;-)

I always looked at it this way; this "/" is a forward slash simply because it
is one of these "|" that is falling FORWARD, you know, like we read left to
right. (english) So IMO in left to right, RIGHT is FORWARD. And of course
using this logic a "\" is a backslash because it is a "|" falling backwards.
heh.:-)

hacking, whacking and slashing with forward progress,
-John.

On Mar 25, 2003 01:50pm, XITAMI@LISTS.XITAMI.ORG wrote to JUNK:

 > I didn't even know what a backslash was until I got my first computer in
 > 198x something or other. We know things change thoughout the years and
 > here is what my friends who work for Microsoft say.

 > "\" is a backslash
 > "/" is a whack

 > So something like this http:// would be http:whackwhack and this c:\ would
 > be c:backslash

 > Compute on
 > Ron


 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org
 > [mailto:xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org]On Behalf Of Brian {Hamilton
 > Kelly}
 > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 2:23 PM
 > To: xitami@lists.xitami.org
 > Subject: Re: [Xitami] CGI


 > In message <001701c2f27d$e1a64800$6401a80a@comcast.net>
 >    Charles Schmidling writes:
>> Oh what the heck...
>>
>> At the risk of exposing my age ...
>>
>> "/" - this is a backslash.

 > It most decidedly NOT a "backslash".  Back in the 1960s, when I too used
 > to use IBJOB control cards and the like, the character was generally just
 > called "slash".  Purists might call it "oblique" or "solidus".  NO ONE
 > EVER called it a "backslash" in that era.

>>                            It deals with the motion one makes with a pen
 > or
>> pencil as opposed to direction of incline.  For those who remember cards,
>> "backslash,backslash" defined a command card in IBM Job Control Language
>> (JCL).

 > A  novel etymology: would you like to air such ludicrous views in a place
 > densely populated with very erudite "old farts"; I mean, of course, the
 > newsgroup <news:alt.folklore.computers>.

 > Moreover, the punched card code had no means of generating what is
 > correctly called a backslash.  The character is simply a "slash".

>> "\" - this is the forward slash.  Again, describing a physical motion.

 > That character was never seen until the second (or was it the third?)
 > revision of ANSI X3.64 (aka ASCII) in the mid-to-late-1960s.  As soon as
 > it appeared, some people started calling it a "backslash", because it was
 > the mirror image of the familiar "slash" character aforementioned.  Other
 > names are "reverse slash" or "reverse solidus".

>> be gentle,

 > Why?  If you spout arrant nonsense, you must expect to be ridiculed and
 > royally flamed.   There are already far too many "intellectually
 > challenged" Windoze lusers around who don't understand the correct
 > nomenclature, and like you, have it arse-backwards.  Don't add to their
 > paucity of knowledge by reinforcing a contradiction.

>>
>> Isn't the term "software program" dedundant?

 > I would agree with this viewpoint: however, I fail to see where the term
 > might have been used in the post which you quoted.

 > --
 > Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
 > bhk@dsl.co.uk
 >     "We can no longer stand apart from Europe if we would.  Yet we are
 >     untrained to mix with our neighbours, or even talk to them".
 >                                               George Macaulay Trevelyan,
 > 1919

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