On 2010-03-03, mk <mrk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That has always puzzled me to. ETX and EOT were well established, why >> no use one of them? I'd love to know what they were thinking. > > Probably nothing: what many people do with confronted with a problem. > > It reminds me of why Windows uses backslashes for path separation > instead of slashes: what I've *heard*, and do not know if it's true, > it's because Gates fancied using / for options switch instead of -, > and to hell with established practice.
Using / for the option switch _was_ the established practice (if you came from a DEC background the way that CP/M and DOS did). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Boy, am I glad it's at only 1971... gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list