In message , Mayayana
writes:
"Ken Springer" wrote

| I read a long time ago, some computer filesystems had issues with spaces
| in filenames. Ergo, the underscores.
|
| I don't know if that's true, but if you use underscores you avoid the
| issue if it exists.
|

Yes, but why not dashes? The oldtimers still put
underscores everywhere for no reason.

Indeed. The underline ("under_score_" always makes me think of someone
in a fit of anger, using their pen so viciously that it scores the
paper) was, surely, never intended to be a character on its own; on a
typewriter, it was intended to be used as an overprint character to,
well, underline. (Or "underscore" if you must.)


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