Your point is basically good... but slashes don't appear anywhere in the natural world either. Backslashes are very common in more technical computing contexts, whereas slashes are more likely to be encountered in less technical contexts, but understanding the distinction is still important, particularly given the predominance of users that must work with that crufty old operating system.
I agree that saying backslash when you mean slash is worse than the converse, but it doesn't really solve the problem of using them indiscriminately and then not knowing why things break. That problem's a lot harder to solve, of course...
(And, for the record, backslashes are often used for the complement of sets, e.g. A \ B)
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Date: 2010-05-26 14:27 (UTC)I agree that saying backslash when you mean slash is worse than the converse, but it doesn't really solve the problem of using them indiscriminately and then not knowing why things break. That problem's a lot harder to solve, of course...
(And, for the record, backslashes are often used for the complement of sets, e.g. A \ B)