Windows vs. Linux

[John Salerno]

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> A design choice is not necessarily a
> bad choice just because it turns out that some 30 years later there is a
> similar common product whose creators made a different choice, and now
> programmers have to cater to both.

To be fair, this isn't the reason he gave for it being a bad design 
choice. His reason was that MS chose to use the escape character as 
their path separator.

But of course I still agree with you that in either case it's not a 
judgment you can fairly make 30 years after the fact.