wasn't Caine written in common lisp? Pretty sure they show that the debugger they used in the command line was gdb (which ... is that even actually possible?)

Yep, `/usr/bin/gdb /usr/local/bin/clisp 1337` ... also in TADC lore, windows has forward slashes.

Windows has allowed forward slashes for directory separators for a long time. Seems like maybe it started with DOS 2.0.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash#Filenames