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		amelius on Sept 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How were the signs for logical and arithmetic oper... Is there any other symbol that has caused as many problems as the backslash, in computing?

Joker_vD on Sept 29, 2023 [–]

Yes: space. It started with FORTRAN so the history is quite long.

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