On Apr 21, 2019, at 5:23 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Not entirely. It's in very old 7-bit ASCII at x'5C'. In fact, it was invented *for* ASCII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash “Bob Bemer<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Bemer> introduced the \ character into ASCII<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII>[3]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash#cite_note-3> on September 18, 1961,[4]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash#cite_note-how-4> as the result of character frequency studies. In particular, the \ was introduced so that the ALGOL boolean operators<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68#Standard_dyadic_operators_with_associated_priorities> ∧<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_conjunction> (AND) and ∨<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_disjunction> (OR) could be composed in ASCII as /\ and \/respectively.[4]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash#cite_note-how-4>[5]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash#cite_note-5> Both these operators were included in early versions of the C programming language<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)> supplied with Unix V6, Unix V7 and more currently BSD 2.11.” -- Pew, Curtis G [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
