Let’s take a moment to honor Bob Bemer, the man who, among other things, invented the ASCII character system, named COBOL, put the backslash into mainstream use, and developed what became the ESC key. He died yesterday at 84 after a battle with cancer. Both technologies — or at least the technology and the concept, I guess — have changed the way we compute. If it weren’t for people like Bemer, relative dabblers like myself wouldn’t have had such great hobbies and careers these last few decades.
Bob Bemer, we give you a hearty :wq! May your compile be without error, and may your shell be always 80 characters. ^D
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