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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by makecheck on Friday May 24, 2019 @07:56PM (#20006265)
Done to avoid errors, then we proceed to put the "\" key directly above Return/Enter and incur errors for decades to come. :)

Early in my career I did this from the command prompt while typing a recursive remove command and basically auto-torched a much higher directory tree thanks to my backslash-equals-return typo.

Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by Narishma on Saturday May 25, 2019 @08:33AM (#20008648)
And that's only if you're lucky to use a qwerty keyboard layout. On other layouts, the backslash requires a combination of keys to produce.