The weird world of Windows file paths

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“On any Unix-derived system, a path is an admirably simple thing: if it starts with a /, it's a path. Not so on Windows.”

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Falsehood › Software Engineering: ““On any Unix-derived system, a path is an admirably simple thing: if it starts with a /, it's a path. Not so on Windows.””