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		pjmlp on May 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Sepa... You can start by me then. Writing code that isn't able to handle spaces or special characters on pathnames, given that there are even OS APIs for it, is just sloppy coding.

Theodores on May 25, 2019 [–]

Oh I have that covered in code, but on the command line, if you have to escape spaces it is a loss of productivity and it creates room for error.

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