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Reverse Solidus or backslash appeared in order to make Boolean algebra symbols \/ and /\. Nowadays it is used to denote set difference (for which there is a separate Unicode symbol [U+2216]), integer division in BASIC, directory separator in DOS and Windows, special character escape sequence in C-like languages and Unix shell, command formatting in TeX and Doxygen.  |