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[Bengt Richter]

On Thu, 12 May 2005 16:30:36 GMT, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 12 May 2005 15:14:09 GMT, bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) declaimed
>the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>
>> 
>> I don't know why MS used backslashes when unix had a perfectly good path syntax
>> (not to mention drive letter idiocy). Maybe some legal idiocy, wanting to be
>> different to be safe from SCO types?
>>
>	The MS-DOS precursor (and/or CP/M) used "/" to introduce command
>line options. This meant, when subdirectories were introduced, they had
>to come up with a new separator character.
>
Or overcome some NIH and switch to '-' for command line options? ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter