Why does exist?

why did someone invent \ (which is in an annoying typing position btw)

when / exists?

what does \ do that / can't?

when you need a slash you should never need \

you can use / for everything... i dont get it

Your autism is showing user. Go back to the basement.

That's like asking why the letter H exists when we have a perfectly good functioning letter J

Even though this is most likely bait I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't, this is what Sup Forums is now.

literally no one in the thread used "J" in a word, we should discard it

What else would you use as an escape character?

>memegenerator
Boy, do you have egg on your face.

The escape character?

why did someone invent reddit (which has an annoying posting format btw)

when Sup Forums exists?

what does reddit do that Sup Forums can't?

when you need an imageboard you should never need reddit

you can use Sup Forums for everything...i dont get it

the character that you use infront of another character so you can make characters.
I don't know what the original use was for it, but it is used everywhere today.

Bait or dumb?

I use \ the whole time...

No, user. Look at your keyboard. What character is inserted when you press the H key? What character is inserted when you press the Escape key?

Do you know what you're talking about?

>In computing and telecommunication, an escape character is a character which invokes an alternative interpretation on subsequent characters in a character sequence. An escape character is a particular case of metacharacters. Generally, the judgement of whether something is an escape character or not depends on context.

Ive been told on uni that slash is unix patented thats why windows uses backslash. Another posts says thats because they hadnt directories until msdos2 and because slash was used as switch on command (like dir /w) they used nex most similary looking char - backslash.

why did someone invent trannies (which is unnatural btw)

when women exists?

what does trannies do that women can't?

when you need a women you should never need trannies

you can use women for everything...i dont get it

>What does reddit do that Sup Forums can't

Provide quality content and civil discussion :^)

A good example is newlines.
You press the enter key, but it doesn't print an arrow, it just inserts a new line.
On most systems it is \n

\ is far more important than trannies though.

What character is inserted when you press the Escape key?

my dick

>That's like asking why the letter H exists when we have a perfectly good functioning letter J
A better analog is why does the letter K exist when we have C, or vice versa?

In most words K and C are pronounced in exactly the same way.

Coffee / Koffee
Car / Kar
Chronography / Kronography
Cable / Kable
Calamity / Kalamity

Ceiling / Seiling
Celestial / Selestial
Centipede / Sentipede

Child / Tshild
Chink / Tshink
Chocolate / Tshokolate

Photography / Fotografy
Amphetamine / Amfetamine (which is actually the official international name)
Cartographer / Kartografer

English could work just as well with maybe 20 letters.

>Not a Perl programmer

why did someone invent apple (which are scummy btw)

when android exists?

what does apple do that android can't?

when you need an phone you should never need apple

you can use android for everything...i dont get it

jajajajaja

The iPhone came out before the first Android phone.

It's not intended to be a joke.

i think he implying that j and h are interchangeable too, spaniards use J as their H

>On most systems it is \n
on every system \n is the appropriate newline character.
the difference between systems is that windows uses LF(0x0A) and CR(0x0D) on each new line, while GNU/Linux and mac use only LF(0x0A)
old mac systems used CR which made things even more annoying.

why did someone invent me

when everyone else exists?

what do I do that everyone else can't?

when you need a person you should never need me

you can use everyone else for everything... i dont get it

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.

Generally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeiniing voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x"— bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez —tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivili.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

>That's like asking why the letter H exists when we have a perfectly good functioning letter J
A better analog is why does the letter K exist when we have C, or vice versa?

In most words K and C are pronounced in exactly the same way.

Coffee \ Koffee
Car \ Kar
Chronography \ Kronography
Cable \ Kable
Calamity \ Kalamity

Ceiling \ Seiling
Celestial \ Selestial
Centipede \ Sentipede

Child \ Tshild
Chink \ Tshink
Chocolate / Tshokolate

Photography \ Fotografy
Amphetamine \ Amfetamine (which is actually the official international name)
Cartographer \ Kartografer

English could work just as well with maybe 20 letters.