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Wed Mar 3 15:02:28 EST 2010 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2010-March/720551.html

On 2010-03-03, mk <mrkafk at 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).

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