rent ’s take a moment to observe Bob Bemer , the adult male who , among other things , fabricate the ASCII character system , refer COBOL , put the backslash into mainstream use , and develop what became the ESC key . He go yesterday at 84 after a fight with cancer . Both engineering — or at least the engineering and the concept , I guess — have changed the direction we cipher . If it were n’t for people like Bemer , proportional dabblers like myself would n’t have had such corking Falco subbuteo and calling these last few decade .
Bob Bemer , we give you a hearty : wq ! May your compile be without computer error , and may your shell be always 80 characters . ^D
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