On 2012-04-08 17:03, David Canzi <dmca...@uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > If you added up the cost of all the extra work that people have > done as a result of Microsoft's decision to use '\' as the file > name separator, it would probably be enough money to launch the > Burj Khalifa into geosynchronous orbit.
So we have another contender for the Most Expensive One-byte Mistake? Poul-Henning Kamp nominated the C/Unix guys: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2010365 hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Deprecating human carelessness and |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | ignorance has no successful track record. | | | h...@hjp.at | __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Bill Code on a...@irtf.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
