Timeline for Origin of using ">" to represent child in a tree
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| S May 4, 2020 at 11:05 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| S May 4, 2020 at 11:05 | history | notice removed | CommunityBot | ||
| May 1, 2020 at 14:03 | history | edited | Alasdair McLeay | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 30, 2020 at 5:11 | answer | added | Pedro Juan Soto | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 20:29 | history | edited | Alasdair McLeay | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2020 at 20:17 | history | edited | Alasdair McLeay | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2020 at 14:06 | comment | added | ryan |
It's been at least around since linked lists, cs.stackexchange.com/a/76757/68251. I have two guesses though. I would imagine arrows represented the parent child relation, then when type writers came about there was no explicit arrow key on them so the > symbol was the next best thing. Similarly in ASCII there doesn't appear to be a "right arrow" printable key: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#Printable_characters so I'd imagine similarly, they used > instead of a right arrow key.
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| Apr 28, 2020 at 9:27 | history | edited | Alasdair McLeay | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2020 at 8:53 | history | edited | Alasdair McLeay | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 26, 2020 at 23:32 | answer | added | C8H10N4O2 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 26, 2020 at 11:29 | comment | added | Yuval Filmus | Fair enough... It does seem to be the correct site. | |
| Apr 26, 2020 at 10:06 | comment | added | Alasdair McLeay | meta.stackexchange.com/a/294785 | |
| S Apr 26, 2020 at 10:03 | history | bounty started | Alasdair McLeay | ||
| S Apr 26, 2020 at 10:03 | history | notice added | Alasdair McLeay | Draw attention | |
| Apr 25, 2020 at 9:13 | comment | added | Yuval Filmus | Not sure this is the best site for this interesting question, but also don't have any better suggestions for a site. | |
| Apr 23, 2020 at 17:06 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 23, 2020 at 15:57 | review | First posts | |||
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| Apr 23, 2020 at 15:51 | history | asked | Alasdair McLeay | CC BY-SA 4.0 |